Ford Madox Ford's 1915 novel The Good Soldier has established itself as a masterpiece of literary modernism, taking its place alongside Ulysses and The Waste Laud as a groundbreaking experimental work. This Norton Critical Edition presents the first scrupulously edited text, collating all manuscript, typescript,and variant versions printed in Ford's lifetime. Everything necessary for careful study of the novel is here: comprehensive annotation, material on manuscript development and textual variants, a detailed "Note on the Text," and relevant illustrations.These materials present readers with both a freshly edited text and the opportunity to reconstruct alternative readings.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

The Text of The Good Soldier

 Dedicatory Letter to Stella Ford

 The Good Soldier

 ILLUSTRATIONS

Map of Bad Nauheim, c. 1916

Deutsches Hof today

Hotel Excelsior today

Victorian and Edwardian Bad Nauheim

The old Kurhaus

The Marburg Schloss

Memorandum of Philip of Hesse, April 1521

Signatures of the Marburg Reformers

Textual Appendices

 Abbreviations

 Cornell manuscript page

 A Note on the Text

 Manuscript Development and Textual Variants

Contemporary Reviews

 The New York Times Book Review [U.S.] (March 7, 1915)

 Boston Transcript [U.S.] (March 17, 1915)

 Independent [U.S.] (March 22, 1915)

 Times Literary Supplement [U.K.] (March 25, 1915)

 Observer [U.K.] (March 28, 1915)

 Rebecca West·Daily News and Leader [U.K.] (April 2, 1915)

 Morning Post [U.K.] (April 5, 1915)

 Athenaeum [U. K. ] (April 10, 1915)

 Outlook [U.K.] (April 17, 1915)

 C. E. Lawrence·Daily Chronicle [U.K.] (April 28, 1915)

 Nation [U.S.] (April 29, 1915)

 Thomas Seccombe·New Witness [U.K.] (June 3, 1915)

 Theodore Dreiser·New Republic [U.S.] (June 12, 1915)

 Saturday Review (Supplement) [U.K.] (June 19, 1915)

 Bookman [U.K.](July 1915)

Literary Impressionism

 Julia van Gunsteren·]The Aesthetics of Literary Impressionism]

 lan Watt·]Impressionism and Symbolism in Ford, Conrad,

and Crane]

 John A. Meixner·[Ford's Literary Technique]

 Joseph Conrad·Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (1897)

  Henry James·[The House of Fiction]

  Ford Madox Hueffer [Ford]·On Impressionism

First Article

Second Article

  Ford Madox Ford·[Developing the Theory of Impressionism

with Conrad]

·Techniques

Biographical and Critical Commentary

  Richard Aldington·[Homage to Ford Madox Ford]

  Mark Schorer·[The Good Soldier as Comedy]

  Samuel Hynes·The Epistemology of The Good Soldier

  John A. Meixner·[The Good Soldier as Tragedy]

  Arthur Mizener·[Ford, Dowell, and the Sex Instinct]

  Grover Smith·[Dowell as Untrustworthy Narrator]

  Frank Kermode·[Recognition and Deception]

  Carol Jacobs·[The Passion for Talk]

  David Eggenschwiler·[Comical-Tragical Illusions]

  Thomas C. Moser·[The Narrative Stance of Marlow and Dowell]

 Robert Green·The Politics of Agnosticism

 Michael Levenson·Character in The Good Soldier

 Ann Barr Snitow·[The Tragedy of Desire]

 Eugene Goodheart·What Dowell Knew

 Vincent J. Cheng·A Chronology of The Good Soldier

 Paul B. Armstong·[Dowell as Trustworthy Narrator]

 David H. Lynn·[Dowell as Unromantic Hero]

Selected Bibliography