Parade's End

Parade's End

by Ford Madox Ford (Author)

Synopsis

Christopher Tietjens has long loved the beautiful young suffragette Valentine, but the pair are held apart by Christopher's loyalty to his wife Sylvia, despite her callous infidelities, and to a set of principles which belong to an old world, and which are about to be swallowed up in the mud and chaos of the Western Front. This majestic four-part novel is one of the finest achievements of twentieth century literature.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 928
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 30 Aug 2012

ISBN 10: 0099577062
ISBN 13: 9780099577065
Book Overview: A masterpiece of wartime writing by one of the most esteemed novelists of the twentieth century

Media Reviews
The Parade's End series of novels is a tour de force of writing and intelligence -- A.S. Byatt * Guardian *
Incredible...greatest of all war books * Independent *
Undeniable masterpieces * Evening Standard *
Monumental * Washington Post *
Author Bio
Ford Madox Ford was born on 17 December 1873 in Merton, Devon. He began writing in the 1890s and both his fiction and his criticism are celebrated. His most famous works are The Good Soldier (1915) and Parade's End (1924-8). His other major contribution to literature was the foundation of the English Review in 1908 and the Transatlantic Review in 1924. Ford changed his surname from Hueffer in 1919 after serving in the British army in France during the First World War. After 1927 Ford lived in the United States and France, and he died in Deauville on 26 June 1939.