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  • Published: 26 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241434260
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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Parade's End




Ford's great masterpiece set in the First World War.

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This Penguin Classic is performed by Bill Nighy, known for his roles in Love Actually, Shaun of the Dead and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Consisting of four novels - Some Do Not..., No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up and The Last Post - Parade's End is the story of Christopher Tietjens and his progress from the secure world of Edwardian England into the First World War and beyond. Both a portrait of a love triangle - between Tietjens, his beautiful and reckless wife Sylvia, and the suffragette Valentine - and a depiction of life on the Western Front, Parade's End is one of the greatest fictional works of the twentieth century. Ranging from the drawing rooms of England to the trenches of France, and moving between past and present, it is a haunting exploration of identity, loss and memory.

(c) 1924-1928, Ford Madox Ford (P) 2020, Penguin Audio

  • Published: 26 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241434260
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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About the author

Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford was born on 17 December 1873 in Merton, Devon. He began writing in the 1890s and both his fiction and his criticism are celebrated. His most famous works are The Good Soldier (1915) and Parade's End (1924-8). His other major contribution to literature was the foundation of the English Review in 1908 and the Transatlantic Review in 1924. Ford changed his surname from Hueffer in 1919 after serving in the British army in France during the First World War. After 1927 Ford lived in the United States and France, and he died in Deauville on 26 June 1939.

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