Ford Madox Ford

Return to Yesterday

"One of those rich, plummy volumes of reminiscence which are an endless joy to those who are interested in books and the men and women who write them." —Chicago Tribune

Ford wrote with engaging frankness about himself and his contemporaries. These reminiscences are an inimate personal record of a life distinguished by literary achievements and friendships with notable writers of his time. Ford's accounts of his literary collaboration with Joseph Conrad, of Stephen Crane's last years in England, and of Henry James at home in Rye are fascinating. A most valuable, long out of print book by the author of The Good Soldier, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, and Last Post.

"For the direct illuminations of figures of many now personally beyond out knowledge one cannot be too grateful. . . . Return to Yesterday is a necessary book, charming and irritating by turns, but never dull or unprovocative." —New York Times