num_pages: 836
description: 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 "There is no novelist of this century more likely to live than Ford Madox Ford."
language: English
title: Parade's End
titlecomplete: Parade's 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: 6498
series: Parade's End
publisher: Penguin Classics