Volume 44, Number 1 · January 9, 1997
'O Unforgetting Elephant'
By Julian Barnes
Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life
by Max Saunders
Oxford University Press, Volume II: 696 pp., $49.95
The back cover of the old Fifties Vintage paperback of Ford's The Good Soldier has always made poignant reading. 'Fifteen distinguished critics,' it begins, 'have subscribed to a single statement concerning this remarkable novel.' Next comes the statement: 'Ford's The Good Soldier is one of the fifteen or twenty greatest novels produced in English in our century.' And then the names, from Leon Edel to Graham Greene, Jean Stafford to William Carlos Williams.
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