Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End

Laura Colombino (Università di Genova)

Ed. by Peter Childs, Newman University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Newman University), Louise McDonald (Newman University)

Dates

First circulation or publication Apr 1924 - Jan 1928

Places

England (Publication/ performance)
United States (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

“There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade’s End is one of them”, claimed W.H. Auden in 1961 (qtd. inHarvey, 467), echoed by Graham Greene, who asked in rhetorical fashion: “[h]as a novel ever before been lit as carefully as a stage production?” (10). For Anthony Burgess, it is “the finest novel about the First World War” (qtd. in Mill, 219) and Malcolm Bradbury considered it “a central Modernist novel of the 1920s, in which it is exemplary” (qtd. in Hawkes, 13). In spite of such authoritative endorsements, Parade’s End has undergone changing fortunes ever since the f…

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Citation: Colombino, Laura. "Parade's End". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 December 2018 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2926, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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