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About Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Herman Hueffer in London in 1873. He founded and edited both the English Review and the Transatlantic Review, and was the author of over eighty books, including The Good Soldier and Parade's End. He was an officer in World War I and was badly gassed and shell-shocked. He died in 1939. "FunÑIt's Heaven" was first published by the British magazine The Bystander in 1915 and is reprinted here from War Prose (Carcanet Press Ltd., Manchester, 1999).