Ford Madox Ford
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Ford Madox Ford was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review
The English Review
The English Review was an English-language literary magazine published in London from 1908 to 1937. At its peak, the journal published some of the leading writers of its day.-History:...

and The Transatlantic Review
The Transatlantic Review (1924)
The Transatlantic Review was an influential monthly literary magazine edited by Ford Madox Ford in 1924...

, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. He is now best remembered for The Good Soldier
The Good Soldier
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion is a 1915 novel by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham, the soldier to whom the title refers, and his own seemingly perfect marriage and that of two American friends...

(1915), the Parade's End
Parade's End
Parade's End is a tetralogy by Ford Madox Ford published between 1924 and 1928. It is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Welch Regiment, a life vividly depicted in the novels.In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Parade's End 57th on...

tetralogy
Tetralogy
A tetralogy is a compound work that is made up of four distinct works, just as a trilogy is made up of three works....

 (1924–28) and The Fifth Queen
The Fifth Queen
The Fifth Queen trilogy is a series of connected historical novels by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It consists of three novels, The Fifth Queen; And How She Came to Court , Privy Seal and The Fifth Queen Crowned , which present a highly fictionalized account of Katharine Howard's arrival at...

trilogy
Trilogy
A trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games...

 (1906–08). The Good Soldier
The Good Soldier
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion is a 1915 novel by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham, the soldier to whom the title refers, and his own seemingly perfect marriage and that of two American friends...

is frequently included among the great literature of the past 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'.
He was born as Ford Hermann Hueffer on 17 December 1873 to Catherine and Francis Hueffer
Francis Hueffer
Francis Hueffer, born Franz Hüffer , was a German-English writer on music, music critic, and librettist.-Biography:...

, the eldest of three; his brother was Oliver Madox Hueffer
Oliver Madox Hueffer
Oliver Madox Hueffer , was an author, playwright, and war correspondent.-Biography:He was born in 1877 to Francis Hueffer, and his brother was Ford Madox Hueffer. Ford Madox Brown was his grandfather.-References:...

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Quotations

What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

"Literary Portraits. VIII - Mr. Joseph Conrad," in The Tribune (1907-09-14)

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal: the very best and the very worst.

Joseph Conrad : A Personal Remembrance (1924)

No more Hope, no more Glory, no more parades for you and me any more. Nor for the country... nor for the world, I dare say... None... Gone.

Parade's End: No More Parades (1925) [Random House, ISBN 0-14-11-8661-5] (p. 307)

This is the saddest story I have ever heard.

Part One, Ch. I (p. 3) first line; Ford had originally intended the work to be titled The Saddest Story.

You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to set down what they have witnessed for the benefit of unknown heirs or of generations infinitely remote; or, if you please, just to get the sight out of their heads.

Part One, Ch. I (p. 5)

Our intimacy was like a minuet, simply because on every possible occasion and in every possible circumstance we knew where to go, where to sit, which table we unanimously should choose; and we could rise and go, all four together, without a signal from any one of us, always to the music of the Kur orchestra, always in the temperate sunshine, or, if it rained, in discreet shelters.

Part One, Ch. I (p. 6)

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

Part Two, Ch. I (p. 122)

 
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