{"product_id":"parades-end-8","title":"Parade's End","description":"'There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eParade's End\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of them.'\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cstrong\u003eW.H.Auden, 1961 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cem\u003eParade's End\u003c\/em\u003e is the title Ford Madox Ford gave to his greatest work, the four Tietjens novels which, in Graham Greene's words, tell 'the terrifying story of a good man tortured, pursued, driven into revolt, and ruined as far as the world is concerned by the clever devices of a jealous and lying wife'. He wanted to see the book printed in one volume: \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSome Do Not\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e(1924), \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo More Parades\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e(1925) and \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Man Could Stand Up\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (1926), with his afterthought, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Last Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (1928).\u003cbr\u003e\n               Christopher Tietjens is the last of a breed, the Tory gentleman, which the Great War, a savage marriage to Sylvia, and the qualities inherent in his nature, define and unravel. Here the War's attritions offered no escape from domestic witchcraft. Opposite Tietjens is Macmaster, a Scot, different in class and culture, at once friend and foil. Here Ford's art and his human vision achieve their greatest complexity and subtlety.\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith an afterword by Gerald Hammond\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               Gerald Hammond is Professor of English at the University of Manchester, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the English Bible, Fleeting Things\u003c\/em\u003e and other critical volumes and editor of the \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e of John Skelton and of Richard Lovelace in the Fyfield\u003cem\u003eBooks\u003c\/em\u003e series.\u003cbr\u003e\n               This volume is part of The Millennium Ford project which aims to bring all the major writings of this great writer back into circulation.","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56766714282328,"sku":"9781857548921","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781857548921.jpg?v=1778785224","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/parades-end-8","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}