The Good Soldier

This Norton Critical Edition presents the first scrupulously editedtext of the novel, collating all manuscript, typescript, and variantprinted versions in Ford s lifetime.Everything necessary for careful study of the novel is here: comprehensive annotation, material on manuscript development andtextual variants, a detailed Note on the Text, and relevantillustrations. Together, these materials present readers with both afreshly edited text and the opportunity to reconstruct alternativereadings. Contemporary Reviews includes fifteen important assessments of thework, all of which appeared within four months of the novel spublication. Literary Impressionism collects eight critiques on the technique, including three by Ford and related writings by Henry James and JosephConrad, among others. Biographical and Critical Commentary collects seventeen differingassessments of The Good Soldier. Richard Aldington, Samuel Hynes, JohnA. Meixner, Frank Kermode, Carol Jacobs, Thomas C. Moser, Ann BarrSnitow, Vincent J. Cheng, and Paul B. Armstrong are among thecontributors.A Selected Bibliography is also included.