Böcker av Ford Madox Ford

Some Do Not ¿ opens at the cusp of World War I. Christopher Tietjens, a government statistician, and his friend Vincent Macmaster, an aspiring literary critic, are visiting the English countryside. Tietjens, preoccupied with his disastrous marriage, meets Valentine Wannop, a suffragette, during a round of golf. As their love story develops, the novel explores the horrors of the war without the narrative ever entering the battlefield.The characters are complex and nuanced. Tietjens is an old-fashioned man even by the standards of his day; he¿s concerned with honor and doing the right thing, but he lives in a society that only pays those values lip service. Yet he himself isn¿t free of a thread of hypocrisy: he won¿t leave his deeply unhappy marriage because that would be the wrong way to act, but the reader is left wondering if he tolerates his situation simply because he married up in class. He wants to do to the noble and right thing, but does that mean going to war?The men and women around him each have their individual motivations, and they are often conniving and unlikable in their aspirations even as the propaganda of England at war paints the country as a moral and heroic one. The delicate interplay of each character¿s subtleties paints a rich portrait of 1920s English society, as the romantic ideals of right and wrong clash with notions of ambition and practicality.The prose is unapologetically modernist: unannounced time shifts combine with a stream-of-consciousness style that can often be dense. Yet Ford¿s portrayal of shell shock, the politics of women in the 1920s, and the moral greyness of wartime is groundbreaking. The book, and its complete tetralogy¿called Parade¿s End¿has garnered praise from critics and authors alike, with Anthony Burgess calling it ¿the finest novel about the First World War¿ and William Carlos Williams stating that the novels ¿constitute the English prose masterpiece of their time.¿

No More Parades is the second in Ford Madox Ford¿s Parade¿s End series. The book, released just a few years after the close of the war, is based on Ford¿s combat experiences as an enlisted man in World War I, and continues the story first begun in Some Do Not ¿.Christopher Tietjens, after recovering from the shell shock he suffered in Some Do Not ¿, has returned to the edge of the war as a commanding officer in charge of preparing draft troops for deployment to the front. As the ¿last true Tory,¿ Tietjens demonstrates talent bordering on genius as he struggles against the laziness, incompetence, and confusion of the army around him¿but his troubles only begin when his self-centered and scandalous wife Sylvia appears at his base in Rouen for a surprise visit.Unlike Some Do Not ¿, which was told in a highly modernist series of flash-backs and flash-forwards, Parade¿s End is a much more straightforward narrative. Despite this, the characters continue to be realized in an incredibly complex and nuanced way. Tietjens, almost a caricature of the stiff, honorable English gentleman, stoically absorbs the problems and suffering of those around him. Ford simultaneously paints him as an almost Christlike character and an immature, idealistic schoolboy, eager to keep up appearances despite the ruination it causes the people around him. Sylvia, his wife, has had her affairs and scandals, and is clearly a selfish and trying personality; but her powerful charm, and her frustration with both her almost comically stiff-lipped husband and the war¿s interruption of civilization, lends her a not-unsympathetic air. The supporting cast of conscripts and officers is equally well-realized, with each one protraying a separate aspect of war¿s effect on regular, scared people simply doing their best.The novel was extremely well-reviewed in its time, and it and the series it¿s a part of remain one of the most important novels written about World War I.

Esta es la historia más triste que jamás he oído. Habíamos tratado a los Ashburnham durante nueve temporadas en la ciudad de Nauheim con gran intimidad¿, O, más bien, habíamos mantenido con ellos unas relaciones tan flexibles y tan cómodas y sin embargo tan íntimas como las de un guante de buena calidad con la mano que protege. Mi mujer y yo conocíamos al capitán Ashburnham y a su señora todo lo bien que es posible conocer a alguien, pero, por otra parte, no sabíamos nada en absoluto acerca de ellos. Se trata, creo yo, de una situación que sólo es posible con ingleses sobre quienes, incluso en el día de hoy, cuando me paro a dilucidar lo que sé de esta triste historia, descubro que vivía en la más completa ignorancia. Hasta hace seis meses no había pisado nunca Inglaterra y, ciertamente, nunca había sondeado las profundidades de un corazón inglés. No había pasado de sus aspectos más superficiales. No quiero decir con eso que no conociéramos a muchos ingleses. Viviendo, como nos veíamos obligados a hacerlo, en Europa, y siendo, como nos veíamos obligados a serlo, americanos ociosos, lo cual equivale a decir que éramos muy poco americanos, no nos quedaba otro remedio que frecuentar la compañía de los ingleses de clase alta. Porque París era nuestro hogar, algún sitio comprendido entre los límites de Niza y Bordighera nos proporcionaba cuarteles de invierno todos los años, y Nauheim siempre nos recibía desde julio hasta septiembre. Deducirá usted de estas afirmaciones que uno de los dos estaba, como suele decirse, «delicado del corazón», y, cuando le diga que mi esposa ha muerto, comprenderá que era ella la enferma.

The British author Ford Madox Ford published a book titled ''The Good Soldier'' is a Tale of Passion in 1915. It takes place just before World War I and details the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham's marriage, which on the surface seemed flawless, as well as that of his two American friends. The book's narrative is told in a non-chronological order of flashbacks; Ford's groundbreaking interpretation of literary impressionism included this literary trick. Ford successfully employs the tactic of the unreliable narrator as the main character gradually reveals a version of events that is considerably different from what the beginning leads the reader to assume. The book was based somewhat on two instances of infidelity as well as Ford's complicated personal life. The Saddest Story was the book's initial title, but the publishers requested a change when World War I broke out. Ford coined the satirical phrase "The Good Soldier," and it became popular. On the Modern Library's 1998 list of the top 100 English-language books released during the 20th century, The Good Soldier was ranked number thirty. The BBC ranked the best 100 British books of 2015, and The Good Soldier came in at number thirteen.

No More Parades: A novel, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.