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A tale of passion famously begins with the line, this is the saddest story i have ever heard. Continuing her series on the novel, jane smiley discusses ford madox fords the good soldier, thought by many to be one of the few stylistically perfect works in any language. I felt the need to go back over the first 40 pages or so, just to try and accustom myself to it. I will warn you, if you have read anything by kagawa, you know she isnt one to let her characters go happily off into the sunset when you are midseries so keep that in mind when you pick this book up. Yet, leonora adored him with a passion that was like an agony, and. But what makes this so much better than the book is the reader, he is wonderful.
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