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Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Ford Medox Ford
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369407658

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Some Do Not by Ford Medox Ford Pdf

Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant, unconventional mathematician, is married to the dazzling yet unfaithful Sylvia, when, during a turbulent weekend, he meets a young Suffragette by the name of Valentine Wannop. Christopher and Valentine are on the verge of becoming lovers until he must return to his World War I regiment. Ultimately, Christopher, shell-shocked and suffering from amnesia, is sent back to London. An unforgettable exploration of the tensions of a society confronting catastrophe, sexuality, power, madness, and violence, this narrative examines time and a critical moment in history.

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504080798

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The Last Post by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

Following WWI, an English aristocrat struggles to find peace as he attempts to rebuild his life in this conclusion to the Parade’s End Tetralogy. The Great War is over. The ancestral home of Christopher Tietjens has been sold to an American. Christopher and Valentine Wannop now share a cottage with his brother and sister-in-law. A mathematician before the war, Christopher now earns a living selling antique furniture. It seems his world will be forever changed . . . Set over the course of one summer day, The Last Post follows its characters as they amble through a disorientating new world. Tensions arise for the inhabitants of the cottage. Valentine is pregnant and worried about her unmarried status as well as Christopher’s money troubles. Then Christopher’s estranged wife schemes to make their lives miserable. With the past haunting their present, the future seems uncertain for Christopher and Valentine. Praise for Parade’s End “The finest English novel about the Great War.” —Malcolm Bradbury “There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade’s End is one of them.” —W. H. Auden “The best novel by a British writer. . . . It is also the finest novel about the First World War. It is also the finest novel about the nature of British society.” —Anthony Burgess “The English prose masterpiece of the time.” —William Carlos Williams

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1281724650

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Parade's End by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:759918223

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Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788728410448

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No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

The second book in the ‘Parade’s End’ series, ‘No More Parades’ follows the story of Christopher Tietjens. An Edwardian Englishman through and through, Tietjens is forced to leave his ordered life behind him and join the bedlam of the First World War. Drawing on his own experiences, it’s against this backdrop that Ford describes the domestic battles between Tietjens and his unfaithful wife. Tragic and sometimes harrowing, this book deftly contrasts the chaos of private and personal conflicts against a war that would change the world, forever. Born in Wimbledon, Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer (1873 – 1939) was a prolific poet, novelist, and literary critic, who would become better known by his pen-name, Ford Madox Ford. The grandson of the artist, Ford Madox Brown, he was educated firstly in Kent, before being accepted at the University College School in London. At the age of 21, Ford eloped with his childhood sweetheart, Elsie Martindale. After living at several houses, they finally settled in Winchelsea. There, Ford befriended a number of authors living locally, including HG Wells and Henry James. However, it was Joseph Conrad with whom he decided to collaborate, writing a pirate novel titled ‘Romance ́. After a nervous breakdown, Ford went to recover in Germany, which laid the foundations for ‘The Good Soldier.’ On returning to England, he founded ‘The English Review’ magazine, before being sent to fight in World War I. When the war finished, Ford spent the rest of his life travelling and writing. He leaves behind him more than 80 books and numerous poems.

Author : Madox Ford
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571299140

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Parade's End by Tom Stoppard Pdf

Tom Stoppard's dramatisation for BBC TV of Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford will bring new readers to the novel as well as giving Stoppard's audience much that is original to his inventive version of a masterwork of modernist English literature. This is the story of Christopher Tietjens, the 'last Tory', his beautiful, disconcerting wife Sylvia, and the virginal young suffragette Valentine Wannop who completes this triangle of love among the English upper class before and during the Great War.

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1015112514

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Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

Author : Markus Zusak
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307433848

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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : Lannoo Meulenhoff - Belgium
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789401407281

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Parade's end by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

De klassieker van Ford Madox Ford, waarop de gelijknamige BBC/HBO-reeks Parade's End gebaseerd is, is nu voor het eerst in het Nederlands vertaald. Dit e-boek bevat deel 2 van het volledige boek. De overige 3 delen van het boek zijn ook afzonderlijk verkrijgbaar als e-boek. Parade's End vertelt het epische verhaal van een driehoeksverhouding tegen de achtergrond van de Eerste Wereldoorlog en een maatschappij waarin de waarden en normen op een keerpunt staan. Centraal staan de Engelse aristocraat Christopher Tietjens, diens mooie, maar wrede vrouw Sylvia en Valentine Wallop, een jonge suffragette op wie hij hopeloos verliefd wordt.

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571300537

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Parade's End * Signed * by Tom Stoppard Pdf

Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466853669

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The Easter Parade by Richard Yates Pdf

In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are still the children of divorced parents. We observe the sisters over four decades, watching them grow into two very different women. Sarah is stable and stalwart, settling into an unhappy marriage. Emily is precocious and independent, struggling with one unsatisfactory love affair after another. Richard Yates's classic novel is about how both women struggle to overcome their tarnished family's past, and how both finally reach for some semblance of renewal.

Author : Madox Ford
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9788027235865

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Parade's End Series: Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up & Last Post by 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 : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027234943

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NO MORE PARADES by Ford Madox Ford Pdf

The second volume of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End series, follows Christopher Tietjens, an officer and gentlemen, from the secure, orderly world of Edwardian England into the chaotic madness of World War I. Recounting a complex sexual intrigue involving Tietjens and his faithless wife Sylvia, this account is not only a panorama of World War One, but an exploration of time, history, and sexuality. 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.