The Good Soldier

Description:

This is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy - or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good glove's with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them.

subjects: Fiction, family life,  Married people, fiction,  Friendship, fiction,  Germany, fiction,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, family life, general,  Adultery,  British,  Classic Literature,  Fiction,  Friendship,  Married people,  Middle class,  Aultery,  Social life and customs,  History,  German,  Dictionaries,  English language,  Chinese,  Korean,  French,  Literary criticism,  European,  British--germany--fiction,  Married people--fiction,  Middle class--fiction,  Friendship--fiction,  Adultery--fiction,  Pr6011.o53 g5 2012b,  823.912,  Long Now Manual for Civilization,  British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author),  English literature,  Drama,  Fiction, war & military

People: Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)

Places: Bad Nauheim,  Bad Nauheim (Germany),  Germany