Introduction by Professor Robert Hampson FEA, FRSA, Professor of Modern Literature, English Department, Royal Holloway, University of London and Dr Andrew Purssell, Visiting Lecturer in the English Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. PARADE'S END is the great British war novel and Ford Madox Ford's major achievement as a novelist. Originally published as four linked novels between 1924 and 1928, it follows the story of Christopher Tietjens, as his life is shattered by his wife's infidelities and overturned by the mud, blood and destruction of the First World War. Tietjens, with his old-fashioned Tory values, is already out of step with the corrupt political culture of Edwardian England: his experiences at the Front and his developing relationship with the suffragette Valentine Wannop force him into a radical reconfiguring of his values as he participates in the post-war period of national re-construction. Parade's End is both a subtly perceptive psychological novel and a richly descriptive chronicle of 'the public events of a decade'. Through Tietjens, his beautiful (and unforgettably cruel) wife, Sylvia, and the principled Valentine, Ford draws us into the world of the English upper class as it goes through a period of crisis and transformation.
- ISBN:
- 9781840227192
- 9781840227192
- Category:
- Contemporary fiction
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 07-01-2013
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 768
- Dimensions (mm):
- 198x129x38mm
- Weight:
- 0.47kg
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