The Complete Horse and Rider

Muir, Sarah

ISBN 10: 1840227192 / ISBN 13: 9781840227192

Published by Hermes House

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Horse and Rider
• Publisher: Hermes House
• ISBN 10: 1840227192
• ISBN 13: 9781840227192
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 500 grams

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Synopsis

Parade 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.

About the Author

One of the primary reasons for the works of Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) being undervalued was his own endless self-promotion truly a legend in his own mind which tended to produce the opposite effect with his critics. In truth, The Good Soldier is one of the great modern novels, ranking alongside Conrad, Joyce and James, and his fine tetralogy which makes up Parade s End has been the subject of a recent TV adaptation.