Parade's End

by Ford Madox Ford

Overview

This monumental novel, divided into four separate books, celebrates the end of an era, the irrevocable destruction of the comfortable, predictable society that vanished during World War I.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307744210
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/03/2012
Series:	Parade's End Series
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	912
Sales rank:	399,667
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939), was born in England. Author of The Good Soldier, Parade’s End, and The Fifth Queen, he is also remembered for founding two influential literary journals and championing many of the leading modernist writers of the day.

Table of Contents

	Some Do Not...	3
	No More Parades	291
	A Man Could Stand Up--	503
	The Last Post	677

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade’s End is one of them.” —W. H. Auden

Editorial Reviews

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade’s End is one of them.” —W. H. Auden

From the Publisher

11/01/2013
Four novels, published from 1924 to 1928, about an Englishman's world both at home and as an army officer. Stylistically, not an easy read. A general audience may be more drawn to the HBO five-part series, now available on DVD and Blu-ray.

Library Journal

Ford’s four connected works, a neglected and sometimes problematic classic, track the blighted life of brilliant, aristocratic, and tremendously “old school” Christopher Tietjens before, during, and after WWI. Steven Crossley’s British-accented voice is rich and endlessly listenable. He keeps characters’ voices distinct and provides an array of accents differing by class and region. Rather than just reading, he performs a single-handed drama. His excellent pacing, subtle variation of intonation patterns, and sensitivity to the text seem natural and effortless. He enlivens the novels’ long interior monologues with variations of tone and emphasis that also interpret the characters’ thoughts and feelings, rendering them more vivid and comprehensible than most readers could on their own. Listening to Crossley read PARADE’S END is, in many ways, better than reading it oneself. W.M. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

NOVEMBER 2012 - AudioFile