This is the saddest story I have ever heard" and follows John Dowell's betrayal by Edward Ashburnham.
This man examined writing "From Confucius' Day to Our Own" in his last book, The March of Literature, and wrote a historical trilogy about Katharine Howard called The Fifth Queen. This man's character Valentine Wannop appears in the volumes Some Do Not... and A Man Could Stand Up -, in which she has an affair with "the Last Tory", Christopher (*) Tietjens. While being treated at Nauheim for his fake heart condition, the title character of one of his books has an affair with Florence, the narrator's wife. That novel begins with the line "This is the saddest story I have ever heard" and follows John Dowell's betrayal by Edward Ashburnham. For 10 points, name this British author of Parade's End and The Good Soldier.
This man examined writing "From Confucius' Day to Our Own" in his last book, The March of Literature, and wrote a historical trilogy about Katharine Howard called The Fifth Queen.
Ford Madox Ford [or Ford Hermann Hueffer; or Ford Madox Hueffer]