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Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) began his career writing fairy tales before collaborating with Joseph Conrad on several novels. After publishing successful solo works, he established the Transatlantic Review and divided his time between France and America. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars quietly sad and fully realized:, Jan 10 2004
By asphlex "asphlex" (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Parades End (Paperback)
Parade's End isn't the swiftest moving of epics. Comprised of what are supposed to be four seperate novels, it appears unlikely that any of the subsequent chapters in the story could stand alone. It is a powerful book, the story an inevitable tragedy, the results more of an afflication than anything truly humbling. The idea is very precise: tell of what could happen to a brutalized, perhaps incestually based feudal family of the ruling sort when confronted with the Modern Horror of the quick-paced, revolutionized ideas of the roving, buzzing, continually at war world.

The Age of the Teitjans is coming to an end--the age of the Old Rich and the Founding Fathers controlling and manipulating everything they come in contact with. The generation of today is gentle and much more soft--Freudian psychology and the threat or embrace of Socialism having done away with the undeniable hope that is the forces of Organized Religion. Women's Liberation, the freedom of serfs and of slaves and the rampant attack of the Colonialists on their governing masters has made a man like Christopher unable to side with anyone other than those most against his past. Parade's End is a story of the future--not just the future in the eyes of the past (this book was published in enstallments from 1924-1928), but the future of any generation of today following the end of a devastating World War. We hear tell of the moral degradation of a nation, of the changing expectations of the populace and the aroused suspicions of everyone, both those who fought in the war and are therefore accustomed to viewing others as hostile and those who remained at home or went abroad to escape the immediate consequences of a world gone mad with rage. Parade's End tells of exactly that: the end of the human celebration and, in the words of Ford's sometime friend and collaborator, seeing "even the most justifiable revolutions (being) prepared by personal impulses disguised into screeds." For, as even the elite wealthy must compete with the common man for sustinance, human nature inevitably takes over, with all its crude biases and sexual fixations, giving blood to politics and fostering a climate simply devouring itself for spite and for fun.

This book is a grand telling of the doom of empires. It is a story forever of the future as those of any age settling into an accustomed life start seeing the next generation foundering and no longer regret their own mistakes. Now they start to live in the memory of some distant and frequently misremembered past triumph. At the end I found myself struggling to remember my own name . . .

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4.0 out of 5 stars a suggestion, Aug 12 2003
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Read Parade's End with Pat Barker's World War I trilogy. The contrast is fantastic.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Engrossing, important, April 12 2001
By N. K. Shapiro "nancykayshapiro.com" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Parade's End (Hardcover)
How I wish I could urge this enormous, engrossing, and satisfying novel on everyone who, for instance, loved Pat Barker's WWI Trilogy, or Ford's own THE GOOD SOLDIER, or Mary Renault's THE CHARIOTEER, or indeed anyone who cares about intricate characterization, a terrific love story, sweep and intricacy in serious fiction. The love story of Christopher Tietjens and Valentine Wannop, and Tietjens monumental battle with his vicious wife Sylvia and all the British ruling class who prop her up, will enthrall you. Let the Ford Madox Ford revival begin!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A tragedy of change, well told
Ford Madox Ford wrote prolifically, with a repertoire which experimented with style, character and narrative across a variety of settings and subject matters. Read more
Published on Jan 17 2001 by Robert H. Nunnally Jr.

5.0 out of 5 stars a wonderful book which i found hard to put down.
at first tietjens seems too good to be true, but soon he is a tragic hero, and this long book becomes an obsession.
Published on Jul 6 2000 by Ted Brown

5.0 out of 5 stars This Book is Obscure For No Good Reason.
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Published on Feb 3 2000 by David Liam Moran

5.0 out of 5 stars Ford's Last Readers
I find it very sad that this great novel has again gone out of print, perhaps never to reappear after Everyman had to put it on remainder. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Reading "Parade's End" requires courage and patience.
Reading "Parade's End" requires courage and patience, and the reader must endure some frustrations. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A truly great novel of moral and suffering
Having read Ford's absolutely brilliantly wrought little novel "The good soldier", and having read the terrible review of Parade's End on Amazon. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the great modern works
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1.0 out of 5 stars Not just merely boring, but rather world-class boring...
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