Author Description

'The Good Soldier', set just before World War I, chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham - the soldier to whom the title refers - and his own seemingly perfect marriage and that of two American friends. 'The Good Soldier' is narrated by John Dowell, half of one of the couples whose dissolving relationships form the subject of the novel. Dowell tells the stories of those dissolutions as well as the deaths of three characters and the madness of a fourth.