{"product_id":"parades-end-wordsworth-classics-9781840227192","title":"Parade's End (Wordsworth Classics)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eParade's End (Wordsworth Classics)\u003c\/strong\u003e by F.M. Ford. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781840227192.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParade s End is the great British war novel and Ford Madox Ford s major achievement as a novelist. Originally published as four linked novels between 1924 and 1928, it follows the story of Christopher Tietjens, as his life is shattered by his wife s infidelities and overturned by the mud, blood and destruction of the First World War. Tietjens, with his old-fashioned Tory values, is already out of step with the corrupt political culture of Edwardian England: his experiences at the Front and his developing relationship with the suffragette Valentine Wannop force him into a radical reconfiguring of his values as he participates in the post-war period of national re-construction. Parade s End is both a subtly perceptive psychological novel and a richly descriptive chronicle of the public events of a decade . Through Tietjens, his beautiful (and unforgettably cruel) wife, Sylvia, and the principled Valentine, Ford draws us into the world of the English upper class as it goes through a period of crisis and transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Wordsworth Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44962836054069,"sku":"ByrdShop_1840227192","price":34.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781840227192_280119a0-f697-4f90-94a4-0dadf1594b56.jpg?v=1781354545","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/parades-end-wordsworth-classics-9781840227192","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}