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A Man Could Stand Up —
''A Man Could Stand Up —'' is the third novel of Ford Madox Ford's highly regardedWilliam Carlos Williams wrote that the four Tietjens books 'constitute the English prose masterpiece of their time': ‘’Sewanee Review’’, 59 (Jan.-Mar. 1951), 154–61; reprinted in ''Selected Essays'' (New York: Random House, 1951), 315–23 (316). Malcolm Bradbury agreed, calling the sequence 'the greatest modern war novel from a British writer': 'Introduction', ''Parade's End'' (London: Everyman, 1992), xiii. Anthony Burgess thought it ‘the finest novel about the First World War’: ''The Best of Everything'', ed. William Davis, (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980), 97. sequence of four novels known collectively as ''Parade's End''. It was first published in 1926. Summary ''A Man Could Stand Up —'' is the climax of the series, though it is volume 3. It opens on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, in Valentine Wannop’s school, and the three chapters which make up the first Part are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford (né Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer ( ); 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals ''The English Review'' and ''The Transatlantic Review (1924), The Transatlantic Review'' were important in the development of early 20th-century English and American literature. Ford is now remembered for his novels ''The Good Soldier'' (1915), the ''Parade's End'' tetralogy (1924–1928) and ''The Fifth Queen'' trilogy (1906–1908). ''The Good Soldier'' is frequently included among the great literature of the 20th century, including the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, ''The Observer''s "100 Greatest Novels of All Time", and ''The Guardian''s "1,000 novels everyone must read". Early life Ford was born in Merton in Surrey to Catherine Madox Brown and Francis Hueffer, the eldest of three; his brother was Oliver Madox Hueffer and his sister was Juliet Soskice, Juliet Hueffer, the wife of David Soskice and mother o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parade's End
''Parade's End'' is a tetralogy of novels by the British novelist and poet Ford Madox Ford, first published from 1924 to 1928. The novels chronicle the life of a member of the English gentry before, during and after World War I. The setting is mainly England and the Western Front (World War I), Western Front of the World War I, First World War, in which Ford had served as an officer in the Welch Regiment, a life he vividly depicts. The individual novels are ''Some Do Not ...'' (1924), ''No More Parades (novel), No More Parades'' (1925), ''A Man Could Stand Up —'' (1926) and ''Last Post (novel), Last Post'' (1928). The work is a complex tale written in a Modernism, modernist style and does not concentrate on detailing the experience of war. Robie Macauley, in his introduction to the Borzoi edition of 1950, described it as "by no means a simple warning as to what modern warfare is like... [but] something complex and baffling [to many contemporary readers]. There was a love ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Duckworth And Company
Duckworth Books, originally Gerald Duckworth and Company, founded in 1898 by Gerald Duckworth, is a British publisher.Our History duckworthbooks.co.uk. Retrieved 29 November 2020. History 
Gerald Duckworth founded the company in 1898, setting up its office at 3 . Staff included Edward Garnett as literary advisor and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No More Parades (novel)
''No More Parades'' is the second novel of Ford Madox Ford's highly regarded tetralogy about the First World War, ''Parade's End ''Parade's End'' is a tetralogy of novels by the British novelist and poet Ford Madox Ford, first published from 1924 to 1928. The novels chronicle the life of a member of the English gentry before, during and after World War I. The setting is ...''. It was published in 1925, and was extraordinarily well-reviewed.See ''No More Parades'', ed. Joseph Wiesenfarth (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2010), xix–xx Summary by Chapter Part I Part I deals, primarily, with Captain Christopher Tietjens at work. I.i. The novel opens with Captain Christopher Tietjens, ably helped by Sergeant-Major Cowley, trying to move a draft of 2,994 troops, among them a contingent of Canadian railway workers, from a base camp in Rouen to the trenches at the front. His efforts are blocked by having orders given and then countermanded; by having inadequate supplies for these ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Post (novel)
''Last Post'' is the fourth and final novel of Ford Madox Ford's highly regarded sequence of four novels, ''Parade's End''.Lloyd Morris wrote that the sequence was ‘one of the few real masterpieces of fiction that have been produced during our era’, in New York Herald Tribune Book Review (1 October 1950), 4. William Carlos Williams called the four volumes ‘the prose masterpiece of their time’, in Sewanee Review, LIX (January–March 1951), 154-161. W. H. Auden wrote that ‘There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade’s End is one of them’: ‘Il Faut Payer’, Mid-Century, 22 (February 1961), 3-10. For Samuel Hynes. it was ‘the greatest war novel ever written by an Englishman’, in ‘The Genre of No Enemy’, Antaeus, 56, (Spring 1986), 140. It was published in January 1928 in the UK by Duckworth, and in the US under the title ''The Last Post'' by Albert and Charles Boni, and also the Literary Guild of America. The book entered the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armistice Day
Armistice Day, later known as Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth and Veterans Day in the United States, is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark Armistice of 11 November 1918, the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and German Empire, Germany at Compiègne, French Third Republic, France, at 5:45 am for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at 11:00 am—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918—although, according to Thomas R. Gowenlock, an intelligence officer with the 1st Infantry Division (United States), U.S. First Division, shelling from both sides continued for the rest of the day, ending only at nightfall. The armistice initially expired after a period of 36 days and had to be extended several times. A formal peace agreement was reached only when the Treaty of Versailles was signed the following year. The date is a national holiday in Public holi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Some Do Not
''Some Do Not ...'', the first volume of Ford Madox Ford's highly regardedWilliam Carlos Williams wrote that the four Tietjens books 'constitute the English prose masterpiece of their time': ‘’Sewanee Review’’, 59 (Jan.-Mar. 1951), 154–61; reprinted in ''Selected Essays'' (New York: Random House, 1951), 315–23 (316). Malcolm Bradbury agreed, calling the sequence "the greatest modern war novel from a British writer": 'Introduction', ''Parade's End'' (London: Everyman, 1992), xiii. Anthony Burgess thought it "the finest novel about the First World War": ''The Best of Everything'', ed. William Davis, (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980), 97. ''Parade's End'' tetralogy, was originally published in April 1924 by Duckworth and Co. The following is a summary of the plot, chapter by chapter. Part I I.i ''Some Do Not …'' begins with the two young friends, Christopher Tietjens and Vincent Macmaster, on the train to Rye for a golfing weekend in the country. The year, proba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gray's Inn
The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, commonly known as Gray's Inn, is one of the four Inns of Court (professional associations for barristers and judges) in London. To be called to the bar in order to practise as a barrister in England and Wales, an individual must belong to one of these inns. Located at the intersection of High Holborn and Gray's Inn Road in Central London, the Inn is a professional body and provides office and some residential accommodation for barristers. It is ruled by a governing council called "Pension", made up of the Masters of the Bench (or "benchers") and led by the Treasurer#In the Inns of Court, Treasurer, who is elected to serve a one-year term. The Inn is known for its gardens (the "Walks"), which have existed since at least 1597. Gray's Inn does not claim a specific foundation date; none of the Inns of Court claims to be any older than the others. Law clerks and their apprentices have been established on the present site since at latest 1370, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Ford Madox Ford
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval Chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term ''romance''. Such romances should not be confused with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1926 British Novels
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Novels Set During World War I
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and Publication, published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek novel, Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval Chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term Romance (literary fiction) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
