For the first time, the four novels that make up Ford Madox Ford's First World War masterpiece Parade's End are published in fully annotated editions, with authoritative corrected texts. Each novel is edited by a leading Ford expert. No More Parades includes *the first reliable text, based on the m[...]

During a Christmas leave in London, Ford Madox Ford attended a party at the French Embassy, 'a heavy blond man in a faded uniform', wearied by years of war, recalled to a longing for the life of a writer. The evening marks the beginning of a new phase of Ford's life, the years of "It Was the Nightin[...]

This title is presented with an introduction by Zoe Heller. When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far m[...]

Booker Prize-winner Julian Barnes introduces Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece "Parade's End" - now a major new BBC/HBO TV adaptation - in this reissued "Penguin Modern Classics" edition. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Christopher Tietjens, Rebecca Hall as his wife Sylvia and also featuring Rupert Eve[...]

'This is the saddest story I have ever heard.' Wealthy American John Dowell describes in a disarmingly casual, compellingly intimate manner how he and his wife Florence meet an English couple in a German spa resort. They become friends over the years and gradually the history of their relationships [...]

The second volume of Max Saunders's magisterial biography of Ford Madox Ford takes up the story from Ford's enlistment in the army and departure for France in 1916. Like its predecessor, The After-War World makes full use of previously unpublished and long-lost material. It is the first biography to[...]

Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece, a tetralogy set in England during World War I, is widely considered one of the best novels of the twentieth century.
First published as four separate novels ("Some Do Not . . ., No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up--, and The Last Post) "between 1924 and 1928, "P[...]

Again, based on the meticulously edited collation of four manuscripts along with detailed annotation, this edition allows the reader to study thoroughly Ford Madox Ford's 1915 modernist masterpiece. The "Note on the Text" has been significantly updated, "Backgrounds and Contexts" brings together app[...]

Ford Madox Ford is best known for two fictional masterpieces: "The Good Soldier" and the Great War tetralogy, "Parade's End". This biography emphasises that Ford was a giver, believing that the preservation and furtherance of artistic talent was his permanent responsibility.[...]

Determined not to write a biography about his friend Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) in the usual dry style, Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) instead produced a novel. Like his fictional narrators, he has an imperfect memory: he places the beginning of their acquaintance several years after they first collabor[...]