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Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551999111

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Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

A stark, modernist look at the realities of contemporary war. The four novels that makes up Parade’s End (Some Do Not..., No More Parades, A Man Who Could Stand Up—, and Last Post) tell the story of Christopher Tietjens, a British government statistician who joins the army during the first world war. He suffers severe shell-shock, and must live through an unhappy marriage while suspicions run rampant that he has been having an affair. The novels have been referred to as classics of 20th century modernist literature, and Ford has been praised for his unwillingness to ascribe some sort of purpose or order to the violence of war. HBO, VRT, and BBC collaborated on a miniseries adaptation of the novels starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall, and written by Tom Stoppard. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Author : Madox Ford
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547687689

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Parade's End: The Complete Tetralogy by Madox Ford Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "Parade's End: The Complete Tetralogy (All 4 related novels: Some Do Not + No More Parades + A Man Could Stand Up + Last Post)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Parade's End is a tetralogy by Ford Madox. The four novels were originally published under the titles: Some Do Not ... (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up — (1926), and Last Post (or The Last Post in the USA) (1928). It is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Welsh Regiment, a life vividly depicted in the novels. The novels chronicle the life of Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant government statistician from a wealthy landowning family who is serving in the British Army during World War I. His wife Sylvia is a flippant socialite who seems intent on ruining him. Tietjens may or may not be the father of his wife's child. Meanwhile, his incipient affair with Valentine Wannop, a high-spirited pacifist and suffragette, has not been consummated, despite what all their friends believe. The two central novels follow Tietjens in the army in France and Belgium, as well as Sylvia and Valentine in their separate paths over the course of the war. Ford Madox Ford ( 1873 – 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. He is now remembered best for his publications The Good Soldier, the Parade's End tetralogy and The Fifth Queen trilogy.

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547681281

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The Parade's End Tetralogy: Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up & Last Post by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

Parade's End is a tetralogy by Ford Madox. The four novels were originally published under the titles: Some Do Not ... (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up — (1926), and Last Post (or The Last Post in the USA) (1928). It is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Welsh Regiment, a life vividly depicted in the novels. The novels chronicle the life of Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant government statistician from a wealthy landowning family who is serving in the British Army during World War I. His wife Sylvia is a flippant socialite who seems intent on ruining him. Tietjens may or may not be the father of his wife's child. Meanwhile, his incipient affair with Valentine Wannop, a high-spirited pacifist and suffragette, has not been consummated, despite what all their friends believe. The two central novels follow Tietjens in the army in France and Belgium, as well as Sylvia and Valentine in their separate paths over the course of the war. Ford Madox Ford ( 1873 – 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. He is now remembered best for his publications The Good Soldier, the Parade's End tetralogy and The Fifth Queen trilogy.

Author : Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141902074

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Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly Pdf

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly thought he knew all he needed to about women's bodies ... So there I was, roysh, in a state of basically very blissful ignorance, when suddenly Sorcha's up the Damien and I have to listen to, like, women's stuff. And now he's getting a biology lesson he could have SO lived without ... I am telling you, roysh, I never even knew nipples could crack and I was very happy not knowing it. I mean, all I knew about the whole scenario was six seconds of seriously good loving, and now I'm basically expected to be an expert on how to, like, breathe like Dorth Vader and deal with baby turds. Sometimes, life just isn't fair to the babe magnet supremo ... This is SO not good for my rep - but do you think Sorcha even, like, cares about that? Not focking likely!

Author : Kevin Brownlow
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520030680

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The Parade's Gone By by Kevin Brownlow Pdf

Well illustrated book on history of silent movies

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11520395

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Punch by Anonim Pdf

Author : Friedrich Köhler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HW22E4

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Vollständigstes englisch-deutsches und deutsch-englisches Handwörterbuch by Friedrich Köhler Pdf

Author : Humphrey BLAND
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1753
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024307890

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A treatise of military discipline ... The seventh edition by Humphrey BLAND Pdf

Author : Robert M. Grippo,Christopher Hoskins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0738535621

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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade by Robert M. Grippo,Christopher Hoskins Pdf

"Let's have a parade" is the phrase that begins a beloved American tradition, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In 1924, employees of the R. H. Macy and Company store in Herald Square, many of whom were immigrants and first-generation Americans, chose to give thanks for their good fortune in a manner reminiscent of the festive parades held in their native countries. The excitement and praise from crowds lining the route that first year led Macy's to issue an immediate proclamation: the parade would become a tradition. Before the parade's first decade passed, Macy's welcomed the huge and spectacular helium character balloons that became its goodwill ambassadors. Since then, the parade has become a world-famous treasure. Through rare and historic images, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade offers readers a chance to reminisce, explore, and delight in eighty years of this thoroughly American celebration.

Author : Florida
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061857186

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The Revised Statutes of the State of Florida by Florida Pdf

Author : Thomas Wilhelm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080691884

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A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer by Thomas Wilhelm Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Bills, Legislative
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106502792

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Parliamentary Papers by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444659658

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Parade's End - Part One - Some Do Not by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

This early work by Ford Madox Ford was originally published in 1924 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. This is part one of Ford's hugely successful Parade's End tetralogy that has now been adapted into a BBC television drama. Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Madox Hueffer in Merton, Surrey, England on 17th December 1873. The creative arts ran in his family - Hueffer's grandfather, Ford Madox Brown, was a well-known painter, and his German émigré father was music critic of The Times - and after a brief dalliance with music composition, the young Hueffer began to write. Although Hueffer never attended university, during his early twenties he moved through many intellectual circles, and would later talk of the influence that the "Middle Victorian, tumultuously bearded Great" - men such as John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle - exerted on him. In 1908, Hueffer founded the English Review, and over the next 15 months published Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, John Galsworthy and W. B. Yeats, and gave débuts to many authors, including D. H. Lawrence and Norman Douglas. Hueffer's editorship consolidated the classic canon of early modernist literature, and saw him earn a reputation as of one of the century's greatest literary editors. Ford continued to write through the thirties, producing fiction, non-fiction, and two volumes of autobiography: Return to Yesterday (1931) and It was the Nightingale (1933). In his last years, he taught literature at the Olivet College in Michigan. Ford died on 26th June 1939 in Deauville, France, at the age of 65.

Author : Kathryn Tanquary
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781492623250

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The Night Parade by Kathryn Tanquary Pdf

For fans of Coraline and Spirited Away comes a diverse fantasy debut steeped in Japanese mythology about a girl and a deadly curse. The last thing thirteen-year-old Saki Yamamoto wants to do for her summer vacation is trade in exciting Tokyo for the antiquated rituals and bad cell reception of her grandmother's village. Preparing for the Obon ceremony is boring. Then the local kids take interest in Saki and she sees an opportunity for some fun, even if it means disrespecting her family's ancestral shrine on a malicious dare. But as Saki rings the sacred bell, the darkness shifts. A death curse has been invoked...and Saki has three nights to undo it. With the help of three spirit guides and some unexpected friends, Saki must prove her worth—or say goodbye to the world of the living forever... The Night Parade is perfect for: Fantasy fans and kids 11 to 14 who love Spirited Away Kids and teens looking for creepy, suspenseful stories Adults looking for diverse books for kids Mythology fans and kids 12 to 14 A 2017 Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year A Kids' Indie Next Pick A Junior Library Guild Selection A 2017 Freeman Book Award Winner

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030035558826

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Flight and Aircraft Engineer by Anonim Pdf