Ford Madox Ford





Ford Madox Ford

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born
November 17, 1873 in Merton, Surrey, The United Kingdom

died
June 26, 1939

gender
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Ford Madox Ford was the author of over 60 works: novels, poems, criticism, travel essays, and reminiscences. His work includes The Good Soldier, Parade's End, The Rash Act, and Ladies Whose Bright Eyes. He worked as the editor of the English Review and the Transatlantic Review and collaborated with Joseph Conrad on The Inheritors, Romance, and other works. Ford lived in both France and the United States and died in 1939.


Average rating: 3.71 · 4,852 ratings · 528 reviews · 86 distinct works
The Good Soldier
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3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 4,204 ratings — published 1915 — 130 editions
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Parade's End
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 388 ratings — published 1928 — 18 editions
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Some Do Not--
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1924 — 5 editions
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The Fifth Queen
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3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1906 — 30 editions
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No More Parades
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1925 — 7 editions
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A Man Could Stand Up
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1926 — 6 editions
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The Last Post
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1928 — 8 editions
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Soul of London
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4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1972 — 5 editions
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The Rash Act
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1933 — 3 editions
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It Was the Nightingale
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1933 — 3 editions
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More books by Ford Madox Ford…
“You seduced a young woman in order to be able to finish your talks with her. You could not do that without living with her. You could not live with her without seducing her; but that was the by-product. The point is that you can't otherwise talk. You can't finish talks at street corners; in museums; even in drawing-rooms. You mayn't be in the mood when she is in the mood - for the intimate conversation that means the final communion of your souls. You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained...and exhausted. So that...That in effect was love.”
Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End

“Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.”
Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier

“If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?”
Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier