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Parade's End: Some Do Not...; No More Parades; A M by Ford Madox Ford

ISBN: 9780141392196 PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 864 PUBLICATION DATE: 2.08.2012 DIMENSIONS: 198mmX129mmX36mm 585grams

DESCRIPTION: Booker Prize-winner Julian Barnes introduces Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece "Parade's End" - now a major new BBC/HBO TV adaptation - in this reissued "Penguin Modern Classics" edition. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Christopher Tietjens, Rebecca Hall as his wife Sylvia and also featuring Rupert Everett, Carey Mulligan, Roger Allam and Miranda Richardson, this lavish production from a screenplay by the legendary playwright Tom Stoppard brings to life for the first time one of the twentieth century's most significant novels. A masterly novel of destruction and regeneration, "Parade's End" follows the story of aristocrat Christopher Tietjens as his world is shattered by the First World War. Tracing the psychological damage inflicted by battle, the collapse of England's secure Edwardian values - embodied in Christopher's wife, the beautiful, cruel socialite Sylvia - and the beginning of a new age, epitomized by the suffragette Valentine Wannop, "Parade's End" is an elegy for both the war dead and the passing of a way of life. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) served with the British army in World War I, an experience that was to form the basis of his novel "Parade's End", published in four parts from 1924 to 1928. He wrote over eighty books, including "The Good Soldier (1915)", and divided his time between England, France and America. Julian Barnes' most recent novel is "The Sense of An Ending", for which

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