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...again -- each time more ripely. Its searching in direction after direction, its inclusion of swatches of pseudojournalism, its final metaphysical ruminations are attempts to define the nature of perception. Yet Rendell craftily plays herself down: "I suppose the subject of my book traces to Tristram Shandy and to Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier. But I am perfectly happy being considered just a part of the crime genre. I write as I read, for pleasure. At present I am making my way through Rider Haggard's She -- for the 15th time...
...sense this was his deepest sexual experience." Conrad was cooler and more practical in his feelings toward Jessie George, the Englishwoman he married in 1896 and used as a servant for most of her life. Nor did he manage to make and keep many friends. Only Ford Madox Ford, with whom he collaborated, and the sickly Stephen Crane became more than colleagues. But the absence of intimacy bothered Conrad far less than the lack of success. His letters to friends, editors and agents speak constantly of his ambition, his frustration and his need for additional advances. The letters also attest...
...enough to display Burgess at his best and second best: the penetrating dramatist of culture clash and the clever animater of received wisdom. His new novel stretches from the Edwardian Age through the 1970s. At the halfway mark, the reader has already had brushes with Freud, T.S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Havelock Ellis, Mussolini and Heinrich Himmler...
...reclusive British author who wrote critically acclaimed novels in the '30s, disappeared for 20 years, and regained celebrity with the 1967 publication of Wide Sargasso Sea; in Exeter, England. Struck by her "instinct for form" and "almost lurid passion for stating the case of the underdog," Ford Madox Ford became her literary mentor and, ironically, a model for the contemptible men in her stories who invariably prey on fragile, Rhys-like heroines. Rhys, who was writing her memoirs when she died, observed: "If you want to write the truth, you must write about yourself. I am the only real...
...lucid and well tethered to physical realities. The novels are serious, but they are also a weaving of well-told stories, and reading them gives no sense of swallowing a moral pill. For those who must have comparisons, the most apt one that comes to mind is Ford Madox Ford's four-volume meditation over the coming apart of the British Empire, Parade's End. Those few who have read Ford's magnificent work will know that the comparison is high praise indeed...