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Article: BOOK REVIEW / A passion for lying
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 27, 1996
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Ford Madox Ford wrote over 70 books, but few of them are much
read or even remembered today. Posterity has agreed with him in
judging his masterly little tragedy, The Good Soldier, and his
quartet of novels about the First World War, Parade's End, his best
work. The volumes of poetry, biography, criticism and topography
have long since been cast into one of literary history's many
oubliettes.
In this Ford has suffered the fate of many prolific Edwardian
figures but the decline in his own literary fortunes was
exacerbated by the character he presented in his memoirs. His
reputation for boastfulness and mendacity is matched in this
century only by that of Roy Campbell, and the standard ...