Parade's End: Pt. 2: No More Parade's: A Novel

Description

For the first time, the four novels that make up Ford Madox Ford's First World War masterpiece Parade's End are published in fully annotated editions, with authoritative corrected texts. Each novel is edited by a leading Ford expert. No More Parades includes *the first reliable text, based on the manuscript and first editions *a major critical introduction by Joseph Wiesenfarth *an account of the novel's composition and reception *annotations explaining historical references, military terms, literary and topical allusions *a full textual apparatus including transcriptions of significant deletions and revisions *a bibliography of further reading

Ford Madox Ford, one of the shaping spirits of modern literature, was a great editor, essayist, critic, advocate, and above all a great novelist. The Good Soldier and the Tietjens novels (which make up Parade's End) are acknowledged masterpieces. Born in Surrey in 1873, his father was an author and musicologist and his mother was the daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown. He quickly took to writing: at seventeen he had written a children's story, in 1892 his first novel was released. The Good Soldier was published in 1915, the same year he took a commission in the army. His experience furnished him with material for Parade's End. He continued to publish novels regularly, as well as other works, notably an extended Collected Poems in 1936. He died in Deauville, France in 1939.