Ford Madox Ford

Gerald Hammond

Parade's End is the title Ford Madox Ford gave to his greatest work, the four Tietjens novels which -- in Graham Greene's words -- tell the terrifying story of a good man tortured, pursued, driven into revolt, and ruined as far as the world is concerned by the clever devices of a jealous and lying wife. He wanted to see the book printed in one volume: Some Do Not (1924), No More Parades (1925) and A Man Could Stand Up (1926), with his afterthought, The Last Post (1928). Christopher Tietjens is the last of a breed, the Tory gentleman, which the Great War, a savage marriage to Sylvia, and the qualities inherent in his nature, define and unravel. Here the War's attritions offered no escape from domestic witchcraft. Opposite Tietjens is Macmaster, a Scot, different in class and culture, at once friend and foil. Here Ford's art and his human vision achieve their greatest complexity and subtlety. Gerald Hammond is Professor of English at the University of Manchester, author of The Making of the English Bible, Fleeting Things and other critical volumes and editor of the Selected Poems of John Skelton and of Richard Lovelace in the FyfieldBooks series. This volume is part of The Millennium Ford project which aims to bring all the major writings of this great writer back into circulation.

Parade's End

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Herbert Marks

Austin Busch

The introductions and annotations provide necessary historical and cultural background, while at the same time illuminating the complexity of the original texts.

The English Bible: The New Testament and the Apocrypha

A stunning work of scholarship, the Norton Critical Edition of The English Bible, King James Version, is the most accessible edition available.

The English Bible: The Old Testament

A Running Jump

Reader and Shakespeare's Young Man Sonnets

Twice Bitten

The official TV Tie-in to the new BBC adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's epic novel. The Great War changes everything. In this epic tale, spanning over a decade, war turns the world of privileged, English aristocrat Christopher Tietjens upside down. It forces him to question everything he holds dear -- social order, morality, marriage and loyalty. And it rocks the very foundations of English society. This is a powerful story about love, betrayal and disillusionment in a time of horror and confusion by one of Britain's finest novelists. Ford Madox Ford's monumental novel came to our screens in August 2012 as a major BBC adaptation, with a screenplay by the legendary playwright Tom Stoppard and a stellar cast that included Benedict Cumberbatch. This edition of the novel includes all four parts, originally published separately between 1924 and 1928.

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English Poets and Poems, 1616-1660

Fleeting Things

The Making of the English Bible

Provides more than one thousand entries on words and phrases in horse racing.

The Language of Horse Racing

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With My Little Eye

When a skeleton is deposited on the flooded banks of a canal, Gerald Hammond--gunsmith and sometime hunter--becomes enmeshed in the fatal sequence of events played out against the background of the wild Scottish Lowlands

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The Norton Critical Edition of the King James Version is a real gift to the English reading world, making this classical version freshly accessible. The critical and historical materials give readers a wealth of relevant contexts for both Old and New Testament.

“Making [the King James Version] vividly readable again.” —Robert Alter, New Republic

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On a clear autumn day local kennel owner John Cunningham sets out on the season's first shoot. Joining him is Ben Garnet, a corrupt local official who causes strife when he engineers an accidental mating between one of his spaniels and John's champion dog. The offspring would bear the coveted bloodlines of both dogs -- but the irate Cunningham refuses to sign the papers. When a half-dead Garnet turns up on the roadside, Cunningham becomes a suspect.

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