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PENGUIN CLASSICS PARADES END - FORD MADOX FOR...

Ford Madox Ford's great masterpiece exploring love and identity during the First World War  in
a Penguin Classics edition with an introduction by Julian Barnes. 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. 'The finest English novel about the Great War'Malcolm Bradbury 'The best novel
by a British writer ... It is also the finest novel about the First World War. It is also the
finest novel about the nature of British society'Anthony Burgess 'There are not many English
novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them'W.H. Auden 'The English
prose masterpiece of the time'William Carlos Williams

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