Product Description
• The first stand-alone digital edition of A Man Could Stand Up—, Volume 3 in the Parade’s End tetralogy
• Edited and corrected text
• Accompanied by a brief Note on the Text, embedded explanatory notes and Links to Further Reading
Parade’s End is Ford Madox Ford’s celebrated four-novel sequence tracing the trauma of the First World War through the experiences of Christopher Tietjens. Tietjens, a brilliant civil servant from a wealthy Yorkshire land-owning background, is troubled by the reckless infidelities of his wife, Sylvia, and his own feelings for Valentine Wannop, a suffragette. On the Western Front in northern France, he finds himself under fire from the enemy and under pressure in his private life. A Man Could Stand Up– begins on Armistice Day and follows the fortunes of Tietjens and Valentine, until their paths finally cross again in post-war London . . .
The 2012 BBC adaptation of Parade’s End features Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of Christopher Tietjens.
The four volumes comprising Parade’s End are: (1.) Some Do Not . . .; (2.) No More Parades; (3.) A Man Could Stand Up—; (4.) The Last Post
• Parade’s End is also available from Swift Editions as a single-volume Kindle ebook comprising all four novels in the series
EXTRACT
“She was going to pass her day beside a madman; her night, too . . . Armistice Night! That night would be remembered down unnumbered generations. Whilst one lived that had seen it the question would be asked: What did you do on Armistice Night? My beloved is mine and I am his!”
REVIEWS OF PARADE’S END
“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” – Anthony Burgess
“The finest English novel about the Great War” – Malcolm Bradbury, Guardian
“If Parade’s End is due for a revival it’s not for its large historical or philosophical truths but because it is panoramic and beautifully written. It is a condemnation of the brutal senselessness and stupid waste of war.” – Edmund White, New York Review of Books
“Together [the four novels] constitute the English prose masterpiece of their time . . . They are written in a style that must be the envy of every thinking man. The pleasure in them is infinite.” – William Carlos Williams
“In the greatest war novel of the 20th century, Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End tetralogy, the First World War destroys both a man and a civilisation.” – Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times
“I'd love to find the time to reread Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End – possibly the greatest 20th-century novel in English, I've come to think.” – John Gray, New Statesman
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) was a novelist and editor who published over eighty books, both fiction and non-fiction. Apart from Parade’s End, he is mainly remembered for The Good Soldier (1915).
ABOUT SWIFT EDITIONS
Swift Editions aims to revive neglected classic texts as digital editions, produced to as high a professional standard as the best printed books.
• Edited and corrected text
• Accompanied by a brief Note on the Text, embedded explanatory notes and Links to Further Reading
Parade’s End is Ford Madox Ford’s celebrated four-novel sequence tracing the trauma of the First World War through the experiences of Christopher Tietjens. Tietjens, a brilliant civil servant from a wealthy Yorkshire land-owning background, is troubled by the reckless infidelities of his wife, Sylvia, and his own feelings for Valentine Wannop, a suffragette. On the Western Front in northern France, he finds himself under fire from the enemy and under pressure in his private life. A Man Could Stand Up– begins on Armistice Day and follows the fortunes of Tietjens and Valentine, until their paths finally cross again in post-war London . . .
The 2012 BBC adaptation of Parade’s End features Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of Christopher Tietjens.
The four volumes comprising Parade’s End are: (1.) Some Do Not . . .; (2.) No More Parades; (3.) A Man Could Stand Up—; (4.) The Last Post
• Parade’s End is also available from Swift Editions as a single-volume Kindle ebook comprising all four novels in the series
EXTRACT
“She was going to pass her day beside a madman; her night, too . . . Armistice Night! That night would be remembered down unnumbered generations. Whilst one lived that had seen it the question would be asked: What did you do on Armistice Night? My beloved is mine and I am his!”
REVIEWS OF PARADE’S END
“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” – Anthony Burgess
“The finest English novel about the Great War” – Malcolm Bradbury, Guardian
“If Parade’s End is due for a revival it’s not for its large historical or philosophical truths but because it is panoramic and beautifully written. It is a condemnation of the brutal senselessness and stupid waste of war.” – Edmund White, New York Review of Books
“Together [the four novels] constitute the English prose masterpiece of their time . . . They are written in a style that must be the envy of every thinking man. The pleasure in them is infinite.” – William Carlos Williams
“In the greatest war novel of the 20th century, Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End tetralogy, the First World War destroys both a man and a civilisation.” – Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times
“I'd love to find the time to reread Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End – possibly the greatest 20th-century novel in English, I've come to think.” – John Gray, New Statesman
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) was a novelist and editor who published over eighty books, both fiction and non-fiction. Apart from Parade’s End, he is mainly remembered for The Good Soldier (1915).
ABOUT SWIFT EDITIONS
Swift Editions aims to revive neglected classic texts as digital editions, produced to as high a professional standard as the best printed books.
