Book description
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 Sylvia--beautiful, arrogant, reckless--a 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. Born in Devon in 1873 and educated in England, Germany and
France, Ford changed his original surname, Hueffer, in 1919, after
having served with the British army in World War I (1914-1918). He wrote
over 60 works including novels, poems, criticism, travel essays, and
reminiscences. Ford also edited the English Review (1908-11) and the
Transatlantic Review (1924, Paris). His greatest novels are generally
agreed to be THE GOOD SOLDIER and PARADE'S END.
