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Parade's End: Last Post: A Novel Pt. 4 (Parades End 4): A Novel Volume 4 Revised Edition
Author(s): Ford Madox Ford (Author), Paul Skinner
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 28 July 2011
- Edition: Revised ed.
- Language: English
- Print length: 400 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847770150
- ISBN-13: 9781847770158
Book Description
Last Post, the fourth and final volume of Parade’s End, is set on a single post-war summer’s day. Valentine Wannop and Christopher Tietjens share a cottage in Sussex with Tietjens’ brother and sister-in-law. Through their differing perspectives, Ford explores the tensions between his characters in a changing world, haunted by the experience of war, facing an insecure future for themselves and for England. The Tietjens’ ancestral home has been let to an American, its great tree felled; those like Tietjens who have served in the war find there is no place for them in a demoralised civilian society. The celebrations of Armistice Day have been replaced by the uncertianties of peacetime. ‘How are we to live?’ asks Valentine, as a death and an imminent birth bring Ford’s great sequence to a close.
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About the Author
Ford Madox Ford, one of the shaping spirits of modern literature, was a great editor, essayist, critic, advocate, and above all a great novelist. The Good Soldier and the Tietjens novels (which make up Parade’s End) are acknowledged masterpieces. Born in Surrey in 1873, his father was an author and musicologist and his mother was the daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown. He quickly took to writing: at seventeen he had written a children’s story, in 1892 his first novel was released. The Good Soldier was published in 1915, the same year he took a commission in the army. His experience furnished him with material for Parade’s End. He continued to publish novels regularly, as well as other works, notably an extended Collected Poems in 1936. He died in Deauville, France in 1939.
