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1) Parade's end
Author
Language
English
Description
"First published as four separate novels, Parade's End explores the world of the English ruling class as it descends into the chaos of war. Christopher Tietjens is an officer from a wealthy family who finds himself torn between his unfaithful socialite wife, Sylvia, and his suffragette mistress, Valentine."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1925]
Language
English
Description
No More Parades (1924) is a novel by Ford Madox Ford. Set during the First World War, the novel is the story of Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant statistician and wealthy aristocrat known as "the last Tory." As he moves from a faithless marriage into an affair of his own, eventually volunteering to fight under dubious-perhaps suicidal-motives, Tietjens appears both symbolic and tragically human, a casualty of a dying era dedicating its final breaths...
Author
Series
Publisher
A. & C. Boni
Pub. Date
1926.
Language
English
Description
The third part of Ford's great novel of WWI, the Tietjens family, and the degrading of English society, "Parade's End." The title refers to an imagined time when a man could literally stand up, instead of living in a trench. Or figuratively stand for a strict set of values and conduct which society no longer recognizes.
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