THE GOOD SOLDIER - Ford Madox Ford. Read by Frank Muller

THE GOOD SOLDIER, by Ford Madox Ford (1915)



Narrated by Frank Muller

Publisher: Recorded Books Inc (1986)

Appears to be out of print.



I could not find this recording in digital format, so

I converted my personal copy of this recording to MP3.

From audio cassette (Nakamichi Dragon) to CD

(Pioneer PDR-555RW) to MP3 (iTunes 8, 96kbps VBR, Mono).



The full cover, and a PDF copy, are included.



Frank Muller is (was) "the first true superstar of spoken audio."



Cheers, FerraBit

January 2009



Links:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Madox_Ford




ISBN-10: 1402545282

ISBN-13: 978-1402545283

ASIN: B000OKZEP2

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From Wikipedia



The Good Soldier is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples. The novel is told using a series of flashbacks in non-chronological order, a literary technique pioneered by Ford. It also makes use of the device of the unreliable narrator, as the main character gradually reveals a version of events that is quite different from what the introduction leads you to believe. The novel was loosely based on two incidents of adultery and on Ford's messy personal life.



The novel opens with the famous line, “This is the saddest story I have ever heard.” Dowell explains that for nine years he, his wife Florence and their friends Captain Edward Ashburnham (the “good soldier” of the book’s title) and his wife Leonora had an ostensibly normal friendship while Edward and Florence sought treatment for their heart ailments at a spa in Nauheim, Germany.



In a "Dedicatory Letter to Stella Ford” that prefaces the novel, Ford reports that a friend pronounced The Good Soldier “the finest French novel in the English language!”