No More Parades

Second time with Parade’s end for me, first with these editions. They are to be recommended above all others. The most obvious reason being they retain FMF’s original swearing by this solders which become dashes or blanks in all other versions, completely neutering the realism. More generally, this......more

I wonder if these books actually work better read aloud than reading them on the page. It can be quite hard working out sometimes whether an individual is speaking aloud to others, or thinking to himself, and I found myself needing to reread passages to clarify this. The book covers the period of a......more

Disappointed; but perhaps that’s just me. One hundred years of literary activity have created an expectation of what a WWI novel should be: although written in the shadow of that war by an ex-combatant this does not conform to those expectations. The first book of the series seemed to set up a corrup......more

It is clear that the second part of Ford's four novel sequence Parade's End is of pivotal important to the quartet even before starting to read it, because it provides the title for the series as a whole. It covers only a short period, a few days in the middle of the First World War; their importanc......more

No More Parades is a part of a tetralogy of novels about the First World War by the English writer Ford Madox Ford. His reputation might be less significant now than fifty years ago, possibly because, like others of his generation, he bore the assumptions of supremacy and empire that are currently -......more