Ford Madox Ford

No More Parades (1924) is a novel by Ford Madox Ford. Set during the First World War, the novel is the story of Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant statistician and wealthy aristocrat known as "the last Tory." As he moves from a faithless marriage into an affair of his own, eventually volunteering to fight under dubious-perhaps suicidal-motives, Tietjens appears both symbolic and tragically human, a casualty of a dying era dedicating its final breaths...

As WWI ends, trauma and tragedy give way to a chance for new life and rekindled love in the third novel of the acclaimed Parade's End tetralogy. Armistice Day, 1918. As fireworks proclaim the end of the Great War, Valentine Wannop learns that the man she loves, Christopher Tietjens, is back in London. He has survived the frontlines, but it has affected him profoundly. He is willing to give up everything to be with Valentine, but they are not yet free...

Parade's End is a tetralogy of novels by the British novelist and poet Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939), first published from 1924 to 1928, public domain. The novels chronicle the life of a member of the English gentry before, during and after World War I. The setting is mainly England and the Western Front of the First World War, in which Ford had served as an officer in the Welch Regiment, a life he vividly depicts. Christopher Tietjens has long...

Excerpt: "It was once said of Mr. Robert Grimshaw: "That chap is like a seal"-and the simile was a singularly just one. He was like a seal who is thrusting his head and shoulders out of the water, and, with large, dark eyes and sensitive nostrils, is on the watch. All that could be known of him seemed to be known; all that could be known of the rest of the world he moved in he seemed to know. He carried about with him usually, in a crook of his arm,...

Once upon a time, a Queen sat in her garden. She was quite a young, young Queen; but that was a long while ago, so she would be older now. But, for all she was Queen over a great and powerful country, she led a very quiet life, and sat a great deal alone in her garden watching the roses grow, and talking to a bat that hung, head downwards, with its wings folded, for all the world like an umbrella, beneath the shade of a rose tree overhanging her favourite...

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Once upon a time there was a King who reigned over a country as yet, for a reason you may learn later on, undiscovered-a most lovely country, full of green dales and groves of oak, a land of dappled meadows and sweet rivers, a green cup in a circlet of mountains, in whose shadow the grass was greenest; and the only road to enter the country lay up steep, boiling waterfalls, and thereafter through rugged passes, the channels that the rivers had cut...

Published in 1908, The Fifth Queen Crowned concludes Ford's trilogy about Katherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII, it was preceded by The Fifth Queen (1906) and Privy Seal (1907). Ford portrays Howard as a sympathetic figure, a strong-willed young woman unafraid to risk her life for the salvation of her husband's soul.

First published in 1915, this volume contains a selection of works by Ford Madox Ford. It includes a selection of his poetry and assorted autobiographical notes. Ford Madox Ford (1873 – 1939) was an English poet, novelist, critic and editor. His contributions to "The English Review" and "The Transatlantic Review" were pivotal in the development of early 20th-century English literature. Contents include: "The Early Years", "My Grandfather's House",...

Ford Madox Ford's post-war masterpiece, Parade's End, is recognized as one of the great British novels about the First World War. This selection from his other extensive writings about the war, published and unpublished, sheds light on the tetralogy. It includes reminiscences, an unfinished novel, stories, and excerpts from letters. Ford was in his forties when he enlisted: this made him one of the few writers of his maturity to fight on the Western...