Parade's End: Some Do Not

Christopher Tietjens is a man out of time—a brilliant, principled landowner who holds to old codes of honor in a world that is rapidly shedding them. His wife, the beautiful and cruel Sylvia, openly conducts an affair while mocking his refusal to divorce her. Then Tietjens meets Valentine Wannop, a young suffragette and intellectual equal who stirs in him a passion he cannot act upon. As the Great War erupts and Tietjens enlists, the old order collapses around him—his marriage, his class, even his own mind. From the sunlit lawns of stately homes to the mud and terror of the trenches, Ford Madox Ford's monumental novel traces the death of one world and the painful birth of another. This retelling captures every nuance of character and social tension in clear, immediate language. Part of Timeless Classics.