During a Christmas leave in London, Ford Madox Ford attended a party at the French Embassy, 'a heavy blond man in a faded uniform', wearied by years of war, recalled to a longing for the life of a writer. The evening marks the beginning of a new...
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During a Christmas leave in London, Ford Madox Ford attended a party at the French Embassy, 'a heavy blond man in a faded uniform', wearied by years of war, recalled to a longing for the life of a writer. The evening marks the beginning of a new phase of Ford's life, the years of It Was the Nightingale. Ford evokes the literary milieux of London, Paris and New York between the wars with sparkle, wit and energy. Recollections range across time in a subtle and flexible narrative that fuses fiction and memoir. A memory of a dark January day in Paris, in the weeks 'between dog and wolf', whe
Cover; Title Page; Epigraph; Contents; Introduction; A NOTE ON THE TEXT; TO EUGENE PRESSLY, ESQUIRE; PART ONE: "DOMINE DIRIGE NOS"; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART TWO: "FLUCTUAT NEC MERGITUR"; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART THREE: "E PLURIBUS MULTA"; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; A, B, C; INDEX; D, E, F; G, H, I; J, K, L; M, N, O; P, Q, R; S, T, U; V, W, X; Y, Z; About the Author; Also by Ford Madox Ford from Carcanet Press; Copyright