Ford Madox Ford is one of those writers whose life spanned two centuries.

Ford Madox Ford is one of those pens whose life gauged two centuries. He was born in 1873 and failed in 1939. His novel’A good Dogface Tale of Passion’ was written in 1915 and is rated as one of the great books of the twentieth century. The original title of the novel was’The Saddest Story’His publishers suggested a different title as World War I was in progress. On the spur of the moment, Madox Ford suggested’The Good Dogface, and the title plant immediate acceptance with the publisher.
The Good Dogface is a tale of love and passion. Critics are of the view that the novel is maybe grounded on the particular life of Madox Ford in which he faced conspiracy and infidelity. The novel is set just before the onset of World War I and relates the tale of Edward Ashburnham, a dogface. Edward is the woeful figure in the new despite putatively having a happy wedded life. Along with Edward, Ford creates two American musketeers of Edward.
Madox Ford uniquely relates the story. He incorporates flashbacks. These aren’t in any chronological order, but form a part of the style of Madox Ford, which is unique to him. The story is related by an American John Dowell. The new delineates the sexual connections between two couples, one American and the other English. The narrator of the tale John Dowell is the only person the anthology can approach as he’s the one who’s relating the story. As a anthology reads the book the story develops a lurid atmosphere.
Madox through the narrator John Dowell gradationally reveals a world that leads to insanity, death, and despair. In this respect, the new makes heavy reading. As the anthology reads the book, Madox Ford brings to the fore the numerous vicissitudes of life and the relationship that dominate a man and a woman the most, the sexual relationship. The novel is a important statement about mortal life and after reading it bone wonders that Madox Ford himself must have led a life in which his dream wasn’t fulfilled.
The novel doesn’t run in a single sluice but is divided into four corridor, all of which are connected.
The novel is a important statement of life by Madox Ford. In 1998 the Modern library ranked’The Good Dogface 30th on its list of the 100 stylish English language novels of the 20th century. Utmost critics rate it as one of the stylish novels written in the last century. Madox Ford banded with Thomas Hardy and also befriended Hemingway. It was one of his regrets that he wasn’t given recognition by these two worthies, though Hemingway wrote a chapter on his meeting with Madox in a eatery in one of his books.
Madox spent the last times of his life at Olivet College in Michigan as a schoolteacher. Latterly he failed in Deauville, France. He was only 65 at that time.