No More Parades - Ford, Ford Madox
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No More Parades is the second book in Ford Madox Ford's landmark No More Parades series. It sets forth the maddening chaos that is war, from the meddling of civilians who have no knowledge or care of how much pain and disaster their meddling will cause to the destruction of relationships and lives brought on by the stress of war. This second instalment focuses on the main character Tietjens and his wife Sylvia's tempestuous relationship over the course of three days during the war. Ford writes books about war like no other. Ford's experience writing propaganda for the British government and…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
No More Parades is the second book in Ford Madox Ford's landmark No More Parades series. It sets forth the maddening chaos that is war, from the meddling of civilians who have no knowledge or care of how much pain and disaster their meddling will cause to the destruction of relationships and lives brought on by the stress of war. This second instalment focuses on the main character Tietjens and his wife Sylvia's tempestuous relationship over the course of three days during the war. Ford writes books about war like no other. Ford's experience writing propaganda for the British government and his combat experience make the four books in this series some of the best books ever written about war in any language. Simply a masterpiece.
Autorenporträt
Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) was born Ford Hermann Hueffer in Kent, England. He was a prolific novelist, poet, critic, and editor whose influential journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review promoted the work of such writers as Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway, and debuted works of Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and D. H. Lawrence. The Good Soldier was published in 1915-the year Ford enlisted in the army where he served as an infantry officer during the Battle of the Somme and at the Ypres Salient. Ford is also known for Parade's End, a series of four novels about his experiences during the First World War. The Good Soldier is counted among the greatest works of literature of the twentieth century.