The writing is so good and the fact that it's over 100 years old blows my mind. The book, for it's soapy, messy, regressive/progressive morality could be written today. And Ford's flow at times feels like the antecedent of the Beats. But, there's a very purposeful circularity to the telling of this story that meant we revisited things again and again and so often when I didn't need to. It's a piercing dive into male/female relationship issues, sexual entanglements, infidelity and the reality of many long term relationships, all cut through with an American's eyes on the English approach. This he does with a frankness that feels well ahead of his time. Very curious about his other writing.