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{{Short description|Tetralogy of novels by Ford Madox Ford}} {{About |the Ford Madox Ford novels |the 2012 TV adaptation |Parade's End (TV series) |the 1964 TV adaptation |Theatre 625#List of episodes}} {{use British English|date=June 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Infobox book | name = Parade's End | image = Parade's End.jpg | author = [[Ford Madox Ford]] | caption = First complete edition cover (1950) | country = United Kingdom | language = English | genre = [[Historical fiction]], [[literary modernism|modernist novel]] | publisher = | release_date = 1924β1928 }} '''''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 β]]'' (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.<ref>{{cite news |last=Barnes |first=Julian |date=24 August 2012 |title=A tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/24/julian-barnes-parades-end-ford-madox-ford |newspaper=The Guardian |location=England |access-date=29 June 2014}}</ref> [[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 story with no passionate scenes; there were trenches but no battles; there was a tragedy without a denouement."<ref>{{cite news|last=Macauley|first=Robie|title=Introduction |work=Parade's End|date= 1950 |edition=Borzoi |page=vi|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf}}</ref> The novel is about the psychological result of the war on the participants and on society. In his introduction to the third novel, ''A Man Could Stand Up--'', Ford wrote, "This is what the late war was like: this is how modern fighting of the organized, scientific type affects the mind".<ref>{{cite news|author=Macauley, Robie |work=Parade's End|title= Introduction|page=vi|year=1950|edition=Borzoi|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf}} Robie Macauley includes Ford's quote to an earlier edition of ''A Man Could Stand Up--'' in his introduction.</ref> In December 2010, [[John N. Gray]] hailed the work as "possibly the greatest 20th-century novel in English", and [[Mary Gordon (writer)|Mary Gordon]] labelled it as "quite simply, the best fictional treatment of war in the history of the novel".<ref>{{cite news|author=Gray, John|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2010/12/resolution-ford-short-john |title=John Gray's New Year's Resolution |work=New Statesman |access-date=18 September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Gordon|first=Mary|title=Book Reviews: ''Parade's End'' by Ford Madox Ford|journal=Style|year=2012|volume=46|issue=1|pages=112β115|url=http://www.engl.niu.edu/ojs/index.php/style/article/viewFile/238/173|access-date=26 February 2013|author-link=Mary Gordon (writer)}}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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