Provence by Ford Madox Ford

Provence by Ford Madox Ford

This early work by Ford Madox Ford was originally published in 1935 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Madox Hueffer in Merton, Surrey, England on 17th December 1873. The creative arts ran in his family - Hueffer's grandfather, Ford Madox Brown, was a well-known painter, and his German emigre father was music critic of The Times - and after a brief dalliance with music composition, the young Hueffer began to write. Although Hueffer never attended university, during his early twenties he moved through many intellectual circles, and would later talk of the influence that the Middle Victorian, tumultuously bearded Great - men such as John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle - exerted on him. In 1908, Hueffer founded the English Review, and over the next 15 months published Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, John Galsworthy and W. B. Yeats, and gave debuts to many authors, including D. H. Lawrence and Norman Douglas. Hueffer's editorship consolidated the classic canon of early modernist literature, and saw him earn a reputation as of one of the century's greatest literary editors. Ford's most famous work was his Parade's End tetralogy, which he completed in the 1920's and have now been adapted into a BC television drama. Ford continued to write through the thirties, producing fiction, non-fiction, and two volumes of autobiography: Return to Yesterday (1931) and It was the Nightingale (1933). In his last years, he taught literature at the Olivet College in Michigan. Ford died on 26th June 1939 in Deauville, France, at the age of 65.

"'..we grow our own vegetables, we have six (not very magnificent) rooms, and a garden with the finest view in the world (we are on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean) and a private path down to the sea; for exactly $10 a month...So you see, for a poor painter, this is the place to be.' -Ford's lover Biala on the couple's life in Provence '[Ford] was the only Englishman who stood alongside the great "moderns" - Joyce, Eliot and Pound.' - Peter Ackroyd"

FORD MADOX FORD was a great editor, essayist, critic, advocate, and above all a great novelist. The Good Soldier and the Tietjens trilogy (which make up Parade's End) are acknowledged masterpieces. Born in Surrey in 1873, his father was an author and musicologist and his mother was the daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown. The Good Soldier was published in 1915, the same year he took a commission in the army. His experience furnished him with material for Parade's End. He continued to publish novels regularly, as well as other works, notably an extended Collected Poems in 1936. He died in Deauville, France in 1939. John Coyle is an expert in 20th century fiction and has written on Joyce, Proust, Ford and Nabokov. He teaches at Glasgow University.

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ISBN 13	9781857549898
ISBN 10	1857549899
Titre	Provence
Auteur	Ford Madox Ford
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Carcanet Press Ltd
Année de publication	2009-06-28
Nombre de pages	380
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