The Good Soldier

　　With an Introduction by Sara Haslam. The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. Set before the First World War, it tells the tale of two wealthy and sophisticated couples, one English, one American, as they travel, socialise, and take the waters in the spa towns of Europe. They are playing the game in style. That game has begun to unravel, however, and with compelling attention to the comic, as well as the tragic, results the American narrator reveals his growing awareness of the sexual intrigues and emotional betrayals that lie behind its fa?ade.

　　Kenneth Womack and William Baker are, respectively, professors at Pennsylvania State University at Altoona and Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

　　A masterpiece of literary modernism, The Good Soldier tells of the complex social and sexual relationships between two couples, one English, one American, and the growing awareness by the American narrator of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian facade.