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About Parade's End

Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy set in England during World War I is widely considered one of the best novels of the twentieth century. First published as four separate novels ( Some Do Not… , No More Parades , A Man Could Stand Up , and The Last Post ) between 1924 and 1928, 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. A profound portrait of one man’s internal struggles during a time of brutal world conflict, Parade’s End bears out Graham Greene’s prediction that “there is no novelist of this century more likely to live than Ford Madox Ford.”