Everyman's Library: PARADE'S END, Ford, 1st edition thus, 8th printing, 2011

Description: Here on offer is a very nice copy of Ford Madox Ford's modernist novel, Parade's End, a tetralogy of four previous works dealing with the effects of World War I on the protagonist, Christopher Tietjens. This copy is a 1st edition thus, 8th printing published by Everyman's Library in 1992. ******************************************************************************************************************* Everyman's Library was conceived in 1905 by London publisher Joseph Malaby Dent, whose goal was to create a 1,000-volume library of world literature that was affordable for, and that appealed to, every kind of person, from students to the working classes to the cultural elite. Dent followed the design principles and to a certain extent the style established by William Morris in his Kelmscott Press. . . . By 1975, Dent's vision had been well surpassed, as Everyman's Library consisted of 994 titles published in 1,239 volumes. . . . [The Classics series is] printed on a fine acid-free, cream-wove paper that will not discolour with age, with sewn, full cloth bindings and silk ribbon markers, . . . . All books include substantial introductions by major scholars and contemporary writers, and comparative chronologies of literary and historical context. . . . ****************************************************************************************************************** "In creating his acclaimed masterpiece Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford wanted the Novelist in fact to appear in his really proud position as historian of his own time . . . The 'subject' was the world as it culminated in the war. Published in four parts between 1924 and 1928, his extraordinary novel centers on Christopher Tietjens, an officer and gentleman- the last English Tory-and follows him from the secure, orderly world of Edwardian England into the chaotic madness of the First World War. Against the backdrop of a world at war, Ford recounts the complex sexual warfare between Tietjens and his faithless wife Sylvia. A work of truly amazing subtlety and profundity, Parade's End affirms Graham Greene's prediction: There is no novelist of this century more likely to live than Ford Madox Ford." ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Ford Madox Ford (17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were important in the development of early 20th-century English and American literature. Ford is now remembered for his novels The Good Soldier (1915), the Parade's End tetralogy (1924–1928) and The Fifth Queen trilogy (1906–1908). The Good Soldier is frequently included among the great literature of the 20th century, including the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, The Observer′s "100 Greatest Novels of All Time", and The Guardian′s "1000 novels everyone must read". . . . The Parade's End tetralogy was made into an acclaimed BBC/HBO 5 part TV series in 2012, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and scripted by Tom Stoppard. . . . The above text was taken from Penguin publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.[Ford, Ford Madox. Parade's End. United Kingdom: Penguin Books, 2001.]

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