The Good Soldier
by Ford Maddox Ford
Published in 1915 (I finished it on May 23, 2007)
I don't think my fellow grad school classmates found this novel as good as I did, but I really liked it. The story is slow at times, but life was often slow back then. It was like being on an extended vacation in Europe with some odd people you wanted to strangle only half the time.

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