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        The Good Soldier


        setting

        Paris, France

        time

        Pre-WWI

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1915

        page count

        229

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Edward Ashburnham the finest soldier

        Rip's impressions

        A page from Forester: a romance gone wrong in an idyllic Victorian setting, though thoroughly modern in style (Ford edited and helped write Conrad's work before they had a falling out).

        first line

        This is the saddest story I've ever heard.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)

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