Ford Madox Ford had a fascinating life, spent among several of the most important groups of artists and writers of his time. Friends with Henry James, H. G. Wells and above all Joseph Conrad, Ford was a leading figure of the avant-garde in pre-First World War London, publishing Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis and D. H. Lawrence in The English Review. After the war he founded The Transatlantic Review in Paris, helping to launch Hemingway and Jean Rhys. A prolific writer in his own right, Ford's best-known books are the modernist tour de force The Good Soldier (1915) and the Parade's End tetralogy (1924-8).
Drawing on recently discovered correspondence and photographs, this cogent new critical biography demonstrates Ford's vital contribution to modern fiction, poetry and criticism.
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We need this subtle, astute, witty and insightful biography of one of the major writers of the twentieth century. Max Saunders is passionate about Ford's writing and guides us through his novels with masterful panache. Ford emerges as a man deeply enmeshed in the artistic currents of his times but always divided against himself, living perilously across epochs as he turned impressions into truths. * Lara Feigel, Professor of Modern Literature and Culture, King's College London *
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978-1-78914-733-9 (9781789147339)
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Max Saunders is Interdisciplinary Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham, and his books include Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life (1996), Self Impression (2010) and Imagined Futures (2019).
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