The Good Soldier
British novelist, 1873–1939.
The Good Soldier is a 1915 novel by Ford Madox Ford.
On 5 of the 15 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Ford Madox Ford
- First published
- 1915
- Length
- 192 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Psychological
Is The Good Soldier worth reading?
5 of the 15 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library) and The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library, 1998) | No. 30 | See the list |
| The 100 best novels of all time (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 64 | See the list |
| The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer, 2015) | Listed | See the list |
| The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture, 2015) | No. 13 | See the list |
| The 100 greatest novels of all time (The Observer, 2003) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of The Good Soldier
The edition we link to is the Wordsworth Editions paperback (2010), 192 pages.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions (paperback, 2010)
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN
- 9781840226539
How critics and readers rate The Good Soldier
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 45% of the points available on critics' lists, against 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like The Good Soldier
If you liked The Good Soldier, try Parade’s End, Middlemarch or Crime and Punishment.
