num_pages: 836
description: 'The finest English novel about the Great War' Malcolm Bradbury, GuardianFord's masterly story of destruction and regeneration follows the progress of Christopher Tietjens as his world is shattered by the Great War.In four volumes -- Some Do Not..., No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up and The Last Post -- Parade's End  traces the psychological damage inflicted by battle, the collapse of England's secure Edwardian values and the new age, embodied by Tietjens's beautiful, selfish wife Sylvia. It is an elegy for the war dead and the passing of a way of life, and a work of amazing subtlety and profundity.'The best novel by a British writer...It is also the finest novel about the First World War. It is also the finest novel about the nature of British society' Anthony Burgess
language: English
title: Parades End
titlecomplete: Parades End
characters: Mark Tietjens, Valentine Wannop, Christopher Tietjens, Edith Ethel Duchemin, Mrs Satterthwaite, General Lord Edward Campion, Mrs Wannop, Sylvia Tietjens, Vincent Macmaster, Father Consett, Reverend Duchemin, Evie
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, World War I, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 6499
series: Parade's End
publisher: Penguin Books