Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Illustrations VII
4. Acknowledgments IX
5. Foreword XI
6. Introduction XV
7. Homage XXXI
8. Part One. The Critical Attitude
9. Two Introductory Essays 3
10. Ford Madox Ford 11
11. Ford and the Critics 18
12. The Neglect of The Fifth Queen 25
13. Listening to the Saddest Story 44
14. Ford's Coming of Age: The Good Soldier and Parade's End 55
15. A Partial Reading of Parade's End or The Hero as an Old Furniture Dealer 77
16. Remembering Ford Madox Ford and Parade's End 96
17. Lord Plushbottom in the Service of the Kingdom: Ford as Editor 98
18. The Critical Attitude 109
19. Fabulous Monster: Ford as Literary Critic 115
20. Ford Madox Ford's Fairy Tales for Children 130
21. The Other 143
22. The Artist as Propagandist 145
23. A Collector Looks at Ford Again 161
24. Part two. Memories and Impressions
25. Janice Biala 197
26. Jenny Bradley 199
27. Caroline Gordon 200
28. Julia M. Loewe 201
29. Robert Lowell 204
30. Mary McIntosh 206
31. Jean Rhys 214
32. Wally Tworkov 215
33. An Interview with Janice Biala (1979) 218
34. Two Such Silver Currents 229
35. Afterword 236
36. Chronological List of Ford's Books 240
37. Books in Print 243
38. Notes on Contributors 244