The Good Soldier (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ford Madox Hueffer
- First Published: 1915
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Setting: England, Germany, and the United States
- Principal Characters: John Dowell, Florence, Edward Ashburnham, Leonora, Nancy
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Suicide, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Marriage, England or English people, Adultery, Ethics, Truthfulness and falsehood, Health, Soldiers, Germany or German people, Heart attack or disease
- Locales: France, Connecticut, Philadelphia, PA, England, Germany
The Story:
Florence Dowell and Edward Ashburnham were dead, both having committed suicide, and Nancy, the Ashburnhams’ charge, was insane. Leonora remarried, and John Dowell, caring for Nancy, was now the owner of the Ashburnham estate in England. He was in love with Nancy, but her mental state prohibited him from marrying her. He considered the tragic history of the Dowells and the Ashburnhams, which led to the unhappy situation in which he found himself.
It had begun innocently enough with the meeting several years before of the Dowells and the Ashburnhams at the...
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