Ford Madox Ford wrote modernist fiction about memory, marriage, war and the instability of personal testimony. The Good Soldier is narrated by John Dowell, who attempts to explain the relationships between two couples while gradually revealing how little he has understood about the people closest to him. Parade’s End follows Christopher Tietjens through marriage, social change and the First World War across four linked novels, using shifting perspective and fractured chronology to show a world losing confidence in its old rules. Ford’s prose can be indirect, recursive and demanding, with important information often arriving out of sequence. His work sits within British modernism, unreliable-narrator fiction and First World War literature. The Good Soldier is the shorter entry for readers interested in narrative uncertainty; Parade’s End offers the broader social and wartime canvas. Read more Less
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