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by Ford Madox Ford
With his famous masterpiece The End of the Parade, Ford Madox Ford has created an ambitious work of enormous scale for himself: "I really wanted the novelist to appear in a truly proud position as a historian of his time... The 'subject' was a world culminating in war." His extraordinary novel, published in four parts between 1924 and 1928, focuses on Christopher Thietgens—the "last British Torah" — an officer and gentleman — and follows him from the safe, orderly world of Edwardian England to the chaotic madness of World War I. In the background of the world at war, Ford talks about a complex sexual war between Thietgens and his faithless wife Sylvia. Parade's End, a truly astonishing work of delicacy and profanity, confirms Graham Green's prediction: "There is no novelist who is more likely to live this century than Ford Madox Ford."
