Editing Parade's End (section)

== Textual history ==
Penguin reissued the four novels separately in 1948, just after the [[Second World War]].{{citation needed|date=July 2019}}

The novels were first combined into one volume under the collective title ''Parade's End'' (which had been suggested by Ford,{{citation needed|date=July 2019}} although he did not live to see an omnibus version) in the Knopf edition of 1950, which has been the basis of several subsequent reissues.<ref>{{cite book|title=Parade's End|url=https://archive.org/details/paradesend00ford|url-access=registration|author=Ford, Ford Madox|edition=Borzoi|date=1950|publisher=Knopf}}</ref>

[[Graham Greene]] controversially omitted ''Last Post'' from his 1963 Bodley Head edition of Ford's writing, calling<ref>{{cite book| title= The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford| publisher= [[The Bodley Head]]| first= Ford Madox| last= Ford| series= Volume 3 |year= 1963| chapter= Introduction}}</ref> it "an afterthought which he (Ford) had not intended to write and later regretted having written." Greene went on to state that "...the ''Last Post'' was more than a mistake—it was a disaster, a disaster which has delayed a full critical appreciation of ''Parade's End''." Certainly ''Last Post'' is very different from the other three novels; it is concerned with peace and reconstruction, and Christopher Tietjens is absent for most of the narrative, which is structured as a series of interior monologues by those closest to him. Yet it has had influential admirers, from [[Dorothy Parker]] and [[Carl Clinton Van Doren]] to [[Anthony Burgess]] and [[Malcolm Bradbury]] (who included it in his 1992 Everyman edition).

Carcanet Press published the first annotated and critical edition of the novels, edited by Max Saunders, Joseph Wiesenfarth, Sara Haslam, and Paul Skinner, in 2010–11.<ref>{{cite book| url=http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781847770127 |publisher=Carcanet Press|title=Parade's End: Volume I |author=Ford, Ford Madox |editor=Saunders, Max |editor2=Wiesenfarth, Joseph |editor3=Sara Haslam |editor4=Skinner, Paul |date= 2010–2011|access-date= 18 September 2012}}</ref>