<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant, unconventional mathematician, is married to the dazzling yet unfaithful Sylvia when, during a turbulent weekend, he meets a young Suffragette by the name of Valentine Wannop. Christopher and Valentine are on the verge of becoming lovers until he must return to his World War I regiment. Ultimately, Christopher, shell-shocked and suffering from amnesia, is sent back to London. An unforgettable exploration of the tensions of a society confronting catastrophe, sexuality, power, madness, and violence, this narrative examines time and a critical moment in history.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Ford] was the only Englishman who stood alongside the great 'moderns': Joyce, Eliot, and Pound. --Peter Ackroyd, novelist, <i>The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling</i><br><br>There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: <i>Parades's End</i> is one of them. --W. H. Auden, poet, <i>Thank You, Fog</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Ford Madox Ford</b> was an editor, an essayist, a critic, an advocate, and a novelist. He is the author of <i>The Good Soldier</i>, <i>Parade's End</i>, and <i>The Rash Act</i>, and the coauthor, with Joseph Conrad, of <i>The Inheritors</i> and <i>Romance</i>. <b>Max Saunders</b> is a professor of English and the codirector of the Center for Life-Writing Research at King's College London. He is the author of <i>Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life</i> and <i>Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature</i> and the editor of <i>Ford's Selected Poems</i> and <i>War Prose</i>.</p>
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