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    Parade's End - Part Four - Last Post

    By Ford Madox Ford

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    This early work by Ford Madox Ford was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. This is part four of Ford's hugely successful Parade's End tetralogy that has now been adapted into a BBC television drama. Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Madox Hueffer in Merton, Surrey, England on 17th December 1873. The creative arts ran in his family - Hueffer's grandfather, Ford Madox Brown, was a well-known painter, and his German émigré father was music critic of The Times - and after a brief dalliance with music composition, the young Hueffer began to write. Although Hueffer never attended university, during his early twenties he moved through many intellectual circles, and would later talk of the influence that the "Middle Victorian, tumultuously bearded Great" - men such as John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle - exerted on him. In 1908, Hueffer founded the English Review, and over the next 15 months published Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, John Galsworthy and W. B. Yeats, and gave débuts to many authors, including D. H. Lawrence and Norman Douglas. Hueffer's editorship consolidated the classic canon of early modernist literature, and saw him earn a reputation as of one of the century's greatest literary editors. Ford continued to write through the thirties, producing fiction, non-fiction, and two volumes of autobiography: Return to Yesterday (1931) and It was the Nightingale (1933). In his last years, he taught literature at the Olivet College in Michigan. Ford died on 26th June 1939 in Deauville, France, at the age of 65.
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    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateApr 16, 2013
    ISBN9781444659689
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    Ford Madox Ford

    Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) was an English author, editor, and poet best known for his novel The Good Soldier, which is considered to be one of the best works of literature of the twentieth century.

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    • 5/5
      Ford is really a master of this modern stream of consciousness style. This novel flows with nary a bump. Here we get to meet Marie Leonie and her husband Mark. I'll skip revealing the plot because it is definitely fun to let Ford present things bit by bit.Here's a parallel work: Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil. At the end of the movie, the hero and his partner have escaped the crazy world to a beautiful little corner of the country, with a vegetable garden etc. The hero's mother is a bit like the book's Sylvia, all glittery society and fashion. The horrors of the dystopia of the movie are like the horrors of WW1. My wife was comparing Sylvia and Christopher to some characters in a Somerset Maugham novel. Yeah there are probably scores of works of fiction that cover similar territory. Anyway, Ford does it with real style!