← Back to the shelf
Book · 1915 · Fiction

The Good Soldier

Ford Madox Ford
Penguin Classics (Penguin Random House) · 256 pages
★ 7.0 editorial score

This is the saddest story I have ever heard, an American begins, then tells it out of order, circling two couples whose friendship at a German spa hid adultery, debt, and ruin.

Medium
Novel
Setting
Europe
Time
1915Depicts 1910s

Related books

Other volumes that share a subject, a setting, or an author with this one.

Other media

Works in other forms that share a subject with this one.

Other media onSubject·Suicide
Quote · 1616

“To be or not to be—that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep— No more—and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep— To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.”

William Shakespeare
Song · 2000
Stan
Eminem