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Parade's End: The Tetralogy
Parade's End: The Tetralogy | Ford Madox Ford
Parade's End is a tetralogy (four related novels) by Ford Madox Ford. It is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Welsh Regiment, a life vividly depicted in the novels. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals. The four novels were originally published under the titles: Some Do Not ..., No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, and Last Post. They were combined into one volume as Parade's End, which has been ranked at number 57 on the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list. J. Gray hailed "possibly the greatest 20th-century novel in English". Likewise, Mary Gordon labelled it as "quite simply, the best fictional treatment of war in the history of the novel". The novels chronicle the life of Christopher Tietjens, "the last Tory", a brilliant government statistician from a wealthy landowning family who is serving in the British Army during World War I. His wife Sylvia is a flippant socialite who seems intent on ruining him. Tietjens may or may not be the father of his wife's child.
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Tamra
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This edition is not going to work! It‘s an oversized book in terms of it‘s dimensions (wider & longer) and the print is minuscule. Each page is like a blur of ant prints. I‘m going to have to get the first of the tetraology as a stand-alone book.

@Ruthiella I may have to try the audio on YouTube. 😉 I just found Bill Nighy reading it! 👏🏾

Ruthiella If you have a e-reader see maybe if your library has it electronically. (edited) 2d
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Tamra
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This will be my next bedtime chunkster. I don‘t recommend this edition - the print is tiny, despite the beautiful cover! 😵‍💫

LeahBergen Eek! Not tiny print! 5d
Ruthiella I read this this year. All four volumes. I didn‘t review it on Litsy. It was interesting, but VERY 20th century modern. I‘m surprised it isn‘t better known or more widely read. I feel like Ford was trying to achieve the same thing as Joyce or Woolf. 5d
Tamra @Ruthiella I don‘t know whether to be excited about it or worried?! 😅 5d
Ruthiella @Tamra A little of both? 😂 I read it at a leisurely pace, over three months. There‘s also a really good Libravox recording available on YouTube if you do audio. 5d
Tamra @Ruthiella sounds like a perfect bedtime read - page at a time. 😉 Thanks for the audio tip! 5d
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Ruthiella
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This Monday finds me In World War I France 🇫🇷 in a British barracks as I make my way through the second book of this tetralogy.

#WhereAreYouMonday

Great idea for a meme @Cupcake12 ! 😃

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Crystal83
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Pickpick

I have finally finished this book!!!! I enjoyed it. I am glad I took my time with reading it. The characters and the plot where great. This is my second book I have completed for #20in4 readathon. I finished it in 2 hours and 40 minutes!!! So I have read for a total of 8 hours and 13 minutes. I rated this book a 4 out of 5 stars!!!

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Crystal83
Parade's End | Ford Madox Ford
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These are some of the books that I am going to be working on in the #20in4 readathon. I am wanting to finish Parade's End today, I have less then 300 pages left. I know I won't finish all of these books during the readathon, but I will I have fun doing it.
I am also working on Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon, Love and War by Melissa De La Cruz, Irish Folk and Fairy Tales by W. B. Yeats, two ebooks and a audiobook.

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Crystal83
Parade's End | Ford Madox Ford
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I am finally reading this book again! Started reading at the beginning of January and then my grandmother got sick. I put it down for awhile. I had to start over because I forgot what I read before. I am enjoying so far.

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Kristelh
Parade's End | Ford Madox Ford
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2y
BkClubCare It‘s just fun to say “Ford Maddox Ford” - have you read him? 2y
Kristelh Currently reading Parade‘s End and I think it‘s my first Ford Maddox Ford. 2y
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Valiseb
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Men, at any rate, never fulfilled expectations. They might, upon acquaintance, turn out more entertaining than they appeared; but almost always taking up with a man was like reading a book you had read when you had forgotten that you had read it. You had not been for ten minutes in any sort of intimacy with any man before you had said: “But I‘ve read all this before…”

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Emilymdxn
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Panpan

Some nice writing and some nice material on World War One, but in general this felt like a boorish man‘s meditations on wishing women in nice dresses would bring him lamb chops mixed in with a bit of unexciting banter about whether oxford or cambridge promote better Latin pronunciation... fun. Compared to other modernist writers that pushed the boundaries more I‘ve gotta say I‘m not really feeling this one

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Emilymdxn
Parade's End | Ford Madox Ford
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My total for the first day of #stayhome24in48 with some terrible pic collage graphic design from me to tell you about it! I‘m about 100/850 pages into Parade‘s End and so far it‘s soooo Great Male Author Classic im finding it absolutely hilarious and having a great time reading it, perhaps not for the reasons the author intended but I‘m definitely enjoying myself! I won‘t get to 24 but I‘m going for beating 12 hours tomorrow

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jenniferw88
Parade's End | Ford Madox Ford
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#aboutasoldier #magnificentmarch @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Obligatory picture of Benedict for you all 😉😘

LauraBrook Thank you! Who doesn‘t love a surprise pic of Ben (like we‘re friends) in their day?!! 5y
reading_rainbow 😭💕 5y
NeedsMoreBooks Benedict Cumberbatch 😍😍 5y
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OriginalCyn620 Thanks for the Cumberbatch pic! 😉 5y
sheshedbooks 😄 Thanks! 5y
jhod Thanks so much for the package Jenny, will be in touch soon xx 5y
jenniferw88 @jhod that's ok. Sorry there wasn't extra things but wanted to get it to you sooner rather than later! 5y
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Moray_Reads
Parade's End: The Tetralogy | Ford Madox Ford
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1. Parade's End
2. Terry Pratchett
3. Pride and Prejudice (BBC!)
4. Too many! Panettone, pomegranate, prawns, pasta, persimmon, pesto, peas, pizza, pineapple, pineapple pizza (you read it right!)
#manicmonday #letterp @JoScho

JoScho So many good P foods! 💜🧡💜 6y
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Balibee146
Parade's End | Ford Madox Ford
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Batch! I make no apologies for buying this cover lol #TBRsomeday

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jenniferw88
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Moray_Reads Parade's End, one of the best novels (or sequence of novels) ever written ❤ 7y
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EvieBee
Parade's End | Ford Madox Ford
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It finally came in! #bookmail #bookdepository #bookhaul

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Moray_Reads
Parade's End | Ford Madox Ford
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So many great books (sadly) are about #war but these are two of my favorites. A modernist WWI masterpiece, and one of my favourite books of all time, from Ford Madox Ford and a postmodernist WWII triumph from Ian McEwan. #maybookflowers #foliofreaks

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jenniferw88
Parade's End | Ford Madox Ford
Bailedbailed

I tried reading this when the TV series came out, but abandoned it twice, and I don't think I'm going to bother trying again. Bailed!

hlgreenfield I actually really enjoyed this book! Started it when the series was playing! 8y
BeckyD I have that somewhere. I've been meaning to read it. 8y
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SharonGoforth
Parade's End: The Tetralogy | Ford Madox Ford
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I've been watching the BBC adaptation of Parade's End with Benedict Cumberbatch and enjoying it so much, I thought I'd read the book, too. (Go figure, it's been on the shelf for years.) #betterlatethannever

EvieBee Haven't been watching the show but I ordered the audiobook in anticipation. 8y
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rabbitprincess
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This is one of the few books that I have dropped everything and read as soon as it arrived. Granted, it took me about four or five months to eventually get through it, but it was well worth the effort!
#aprilbookshowers day 12: drop everything and read

LeahBergen I've been meaning to read this for ages! 8y
rabbitprincess @LeahBergen I bought it to read because of the miniseries...which I still haven't watched yet 😳 8y
LeahBergen @rabbitprincess That's my usual M.O., too. 😂 8y
rabbitprincess @LeahBergen Maybe on my next glamorous bachelorette weekend when the BF is out 😄 8y
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GoneFishing
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In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.

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safe_safe
Parade's End | Ford Madox Ford
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Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.

MrBook Welcome to @Litsy ! We hope you enjoy your stay, I think you'll like it here 😎👍🏻. 8y
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Sea.fisher01
Parade's End | Ford Madox Ford
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My #firstpost on #litsy is my favourite book, or collection of books, Parade's End. I read it constantly, and have a collection or various printings and editions. I'm most at home in this book. #paradesend #fordmaddoxford #bookworm #readingismymentalhealth #collector #oldbooksmell

MrBook You've talked me into it, added 😎👍🏻! Great picture! And welcome to @Litsy ! I think you'll like it here 😊. 8y
Sea.fisher01 Thanks @MrBook!!! It really is a phenomenal read. I love it here! Books are pretty much my life. 🖖😎 8y
MrBook Niiice 😊👌🏻🙌🏻 8y
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DebinHawaii Welcome to Litsy!! 🎉👍🎉 8y
Sea.fisher01 @DebinHawaii thank you!!! 😍😍 8y
Chessa Welcome to Litsy! 📚❤️ 8y
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