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Showing posts with label FORD Ford Madox. Show all posts

Showing posts with label FORD Ford Madox. Show all posts

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford: The Inheritors

Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford: The Inheritors Conrad and Ford: this has to be one of the strangest collaborations in literary history...

Friday, February 18, 2011

Nikos Kazantzakis: Feb. 18, 1885--Oct. 26, 1957

Unlike some, Kazantzakis tells the reader from the beginning that his biography of Saint Francis is partly a creative or imaginative work. F...

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Ford Madox Ford: December 17, 1873--June 26, 1939

As I've mentioned before, Ford's The Good Soldier is one of my top ten favorite novels. I find it absorbing each time I read it, f...

Saturday, February 14, 2009

In the Beginning...

In a recent post I said that a novel written by Thomas H. Cook, Breakheart Hill , had a first line that reminded me of the first line of a ...

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Thomas H. Cook: Breakheart Hill

Thomas H. Cook's Breakheart Hill was recommended to me by a friend. This is the first one by him that I've read, and frankly, I pr...

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Ford Madox Ford: December 17, 1873 – June 26, 1939

Born on this day in 1873 is one of my favorite novelists, Ford Madox Ford. His novel The Good Soldier is permanently installed in my top...

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