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Ford Madox Ford


Born
in Merton, Surrey, England
December 17, 1873

Died
June 26, 1939

Genre
Fiction, Short Stories, Poetry

Influences
Joseph Conrad ...more


Ford Madox Ford was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were important in the development of early 20th-century English and American literature.

Ford is now remembered for his novels The Good Soldier (1915), the Parade's End tetralogy (1924–1928) and The Fifth Queen trilogy (1906–1908). The Good Soldier is frequently included among the great literature of the 20th century, including the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, The Observer′s "100 Greatest Novels of All Time", and The Guardian′s "1000 novels everyone must read". ...more

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Average rating: 3.71 · 41,430 ratings · 3,778 reviews · 466 distinct works • Similar authors
The Good Soldier: A Tale of...
3.67 avg rating — 28,678 ratings — published 1915 — 137 editions
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Parade's End
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3.87 avg rating — 6,810 ratings — published 1928 — 97 editions
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Some Do Not...
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3.80 avg rating — 964 ratings — published 1924 — 172 editions
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No More Parades
3.96 avg rating — 546 ratings — published 1925 — 146 editions
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The Fifth Queen
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3.41 avg rating — 577 ratings — published 1908 — 769 editions
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A Man Could Stand Up
4.06 avg rating — 458 ratings — published 1926 — 144 editions
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The Last Post
3.73 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 1928 — 115 editions
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Some Do Not ... & No More P...
4.06 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 1924 — 9 editions
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The Nature of a Crime
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2.85 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1909 — 27 editions
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Some Do Not... No More Parades A Man Could Stand Up The Last Post
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“We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a passion come to fruition, the man will get what he wants. He will get the moral support, the encouragement, the relief from the sense of loneliness, the assurance of his own worth. But these things pass away; inevitably they pass away as the shadows pass across sundials. It is sad, but it is so. The pages of the book will become familiar; the beautiful corner of the road will have been turned too many times. Well, this is the saddest story.”
― Ford Madox Ford
tags: fear, insecurity, loneliness
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“Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End
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“I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.”
― Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
tags: heart, loneliness, people
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