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Parade's End |
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| Book: Paperback | 5.19 x 7.63in | 864 pages | ISBN 9780141186610 | 01 Jun 2001 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP |
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In creating his acclaimed masterpiece Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford "wanted the Novelist in fact to appear in his really proud position as historian of his own time . . . The 'subject' was the world as it culminated in the war." Published in four parts between 1924 and 1928, his extraordinary novel centers on Christopher Tietjens, an officer and gentleman-"the last English Tory"-and follows him from the secure, orderly world of Edwardian England into the chaotic madness of the First World War. Against the backdrop of a world at war, Ford recounts the complex sexual warfare between Tietjens and his faithless wife Sylvia. A work of truly amazing subtlety and profundity, Parade's End affirms Graham Greene's prediction: "There is no novelist of this century more likely to live than Ford Madox Ford."
"No book has ever revealed more starkly the senselessness of the disasters of war, nor shown up with sharper x-ray vision, under the torn flesh of war, the hidden, all-corrupting sickness of the vindictive world of peace-behind-the-lines." —Kenneth Rexroth, Saturday Review
"A remarkable work...Parade's End is, quite surely, the greatest modern war novel from a British writer." —Malcolm Bradbury
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