In this novel (or trio of novellas, to be more accurate) written in the early 1900s, Ford Madox Ford set himself a challenge, to write a novel of Tudor England in a style that sought to re-create the language of the actual time period. The book that resulted is not the easiest for modern readers ...
It was shaped like the house a child draws. Three groups of brown limbs spotted with brass took dim high-lights from shafts that came from a bucket pierced with holes, filled with incandescent coke and covered in with a sheet of iron in the shape of a funnel. Two men, as if hierarchically smaller...
We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy—or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good glove's with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet,...
the boy said, “is ‘Bransdon,’ and we both have the Celtic temperament. That is what you might expect, for Ophelia’s father is the great Mr Bransdon and mine is his chief disciple, Mr Gubb. We have neither of us tasted flesh meat or alcohol in our lives and we are compiling a book called ‘Health R...