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.
Parade's End
β Scribed by Ford, Ford Madox
- Book ID
- 108436232
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 571 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780141933078
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β¦ Synopsis
Consisting of four novels -
SOME DO NOT...,
NO MORE PARADES,
A MAN COULD STAND UP and
THE LAST POST - PARADE'S END
is the story of Christopher Tietjens and his progress from the secure world of Edwardian England into the First World War and beyond. Tietjens embodies the values of that ordered, predictable, hierarchic society of pre-1914. Contrasted with him and portrayed with equal clarity and depth is his wife Sylviabeautiful, arrogant, recklessa symbol of the new times. Their conflict, the chronicle of a family and of an era, makes PARADE'S END both a gripping study of character and a work of amazing subtlety and depth.
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