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Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford

Chronicling the wartime experiences of Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant government statistician and wealthy landowner, Parade’s End is a portrait of British society during the First World War. Described by Ford as the ‘last English Tory’, Tietjens is torn between his scheming and promiscuous socialite wife, Sylvia, and the progressive Valentine Wannop, a pacifist and suffragette — relationships framed by his reliance on a crumbling moral code. Ford presents a gritty and uncompromising portrait of Tietjens’s life in the trenches of Belgium and France, and his subsequent return home, suffering from crippling shell shock. Through a narrative brimming with modernist experimentation, we follow his struggle to reconcile his relationships while navigating the shifting sands of an evolving social order.

Ford Madox Ford was one of the most versatile and prolific of the great modernist writers. It is said that he wrote 1,000–2,000 words each day of his life, producing almost 80 books that spanned a variety of genres and often pushed the boundaries of form and style. No other does this more than Parade’s End. This extraordinary four-novel series, published between 1924 and 1928, chronicles the social upheaval wrought by the First World War. But it is equally an exploration of the nature of time, memory and relationships, presented through a deft stream-of-consciousness narrative. At its centre is Christopher Tietjens, a Yorkshireman and ’the last English Tory’, who is transported from the predictable hierarchies of Edwardian Britain to the chaos of the trenches, all the while tormented by his sadistic wife, Sylvia, who Graham Greene described as ’surely the most possessed evil character in the modern novel’. Ford wanted to be ’the historian of his own time’. Here, he achieved his goal, and in doing so produced a series of great experimental novels.

It consists of 4 novels in two volumes, ‘Some do Not’ and “No More Parades’ and ‘A Man Could Stand Up’ and ‘Last Post.’

Features;

• Publisher Folio Society, London; 20014
• Quarter bound in Cloth Hardback, 1098 pp
• With 22 colour illustrations by James Albon
• Size 250 x 170mm, 3kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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