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Original Title:	Parade's End
ISBN:	0141186615 (ISBN13: 9780141186610)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Parade's End #1-4
Characters:	Christopher Tietjens, Sylvia Tietjens, Valentine Wannop, Vincent Macmaster, Edith Ethel Duchemin, Mark Tietjens, Mrs Satterthwaite, Father Consett, General Lord Edward Campion, Reverend Duchemin, Mrs Wannop, Evie

Parade's End (Parade's End #1-4)

Ford Madox Ford

Paperback | Pages: 836 pages

Rating: 3.91 | 5405 Users | 470 Reviews

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Title	:	Parade's End (Parade's End #1-4)
Author	:	Ford Madox Ford
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 836 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2001 by Penguin Classics (first published 1928)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. World War I

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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.

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I was expecting a masterpiece; what I got was a neurotic obese windbag of a novel. VS Pritchett, always an astute critic, remarked that confusion was always Fords mainspring as a novelist. This novel is so hysterically confused it reads like a diary of someone chronicling his own nervous breakdown. At one point in the novel a character forms the thought that her companion is still droning on with an idea she thought they had got past. I cant say how many times I thought this same idea while

I found this book to be a fantastic slog. It had been so difficult for me to read, in fact, that I found myself trying to skim, and resisting, just barely.I suppose part of the problem must have been the unmatched expectations I've had for this humongous doorstopper. I've heard of it as 'an epic tale of WWI'. But in reality, it was more involved with two people trying to outdo each other in the amount of suffering they could cause. I found the endless digging in the machinations and idiotic

This is one of the best books I've ever read. So brilliant, in fact, I find it hard to describe why I LOVE it so much! The author evokes the emotions of his characters with unique brilliance, using a stream of conscious style of writing to describe inner dialogue, so that we feel exactly what each character feels, especially at moments of great stress. Not only this, but the characters themselves are infinitely well-drawn and their actions believable, totally sympathetic and consistent

I loved these four novels more than I ever thought possible. Well I loved the first three; I was on the fence with the fourth. Like many, I found the fourth superfluous and a bit irritating, but ultimately worth it.I was pleasantly surprised by how farcically funny and romantic these novels are. I loved the relationship between Christopher Tietjens and Valentine Wannop; though politically at odds, they are intellectually and emotionally aligned, a team of two surrounded by violence and

I usually try to stick to a policy of only reviewing novels that I have 'recently' (meaning days, or weeks at most) read, but I'm going to make an exception in this case. Having loved the BBC production, with Benedict Cumberbatch as protagonist Christopher Tietjens, I wanted to read the novel in order to fill in the gaps and details that I felt I might not have grasped. (Do other people do this? My typical response, after watching a film adapted from a novel, is to want to read the novel.) After

Starting Parade's End is a little like reading an ethnologist's report from some alien world. All the characters, in this vision of pre-1914 England, seem to be moved by obscure impulses and constraints; and in many ways they appear more unfamiliar than, let's say, characters of a century earlier as described by someone like Austen. The feeling passes, but it is no accident: part of Ford's argument is that the First World War spelled the end not just for a generation of young men but for a whole