{"product_id":"9781486420155","title":"The Good Soldier - The Original Classic Edition","description":"Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Good Soldier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Ford Madox Ford, which is now, at last, again available to you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Good Soldier:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUpon my word, yes, our intimacy was like a minuet, simply because on every possible occasion and in every possible circumstance we knew where to go, where to sit, which table we unanimously should choose; and we could rise and go, all four together, without a signal from any one of us, always to the music of the Kur orchestra, always in the temperate sunshine, or, if it rained, in discreet shelters. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...The warm hearthside!-Well, there was Florence: I believe that for the twelve years her life lasted, after the storm that seemed irretrievably to have weakened her heart-I dont believe that for one minute she was out of my sight, except when she was safely tucked up in bed and I should be downstairs, talking to some good fellow or other in some lounge or smoking-room or taking my final turn with a cigar before going to bed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...We never did take another look at Beaucaire, of course-beautiful Beaucaire, with the high, triangular white tower, that looked as thin as a needle and as tall as the Flatiron, between Fifth and Broadway-Beaucaire with the grey walls on the top of the pinnacle surrounding an acre and a half of blue irises, beneath the tallness of the stone pines, What a beautiful thing the stone pine is!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...I havent, unfortunately, so that the world is full of places to which I want to return-towns with the blinding white sun upon them; stone pines against the blue of the sky; corners of gables, all carved and painted with stags and scarlet flowers and crowstepped gables with the little saint at the top; and grey and pink palazzi and walled towns a mile or so back from the sea, on the Mediterranean, between Leghorn and Naples. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...Whole castles have vanished from my memory, whole cities that I have never visited again, but that white room, festooned with papier-maché fruits and flowers; the tall windows; the many tables; the black screen round the door with three golden cranes flying upward on each panel; the palm-tree in the centre of the room; the swish of the waiters feet; the cold expensive elegance; the mien of the diners as they came in every evening-their air of earnestness as if they must go through a meal prescribed by the Kur authorities and their air of sobriety as if they must seek not by any means to enjoy their meals-those things I shall not easily forget.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emereo Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47142179242224,"sku":"9781486420155","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781486420155_p0.jpg?v=1763634833","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781486420155","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}