Parade's End
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Narrated by:
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Bill Nighy
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By:
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Ford Madox Ford
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Consisting of four novels - Some Do Not..., No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up and The Last Post - Parade's End is the story of Christopher Tietjens and his progress from the secure world of Edwardian England into the First World War and beyond.
Both a portrait of a love triangle - between Tietjens, his beautiful and reckless wife, Sylvia, and the suffragette Valentine - and a depiction of life on the Western Front, Parade's End is one of the greatest fictional works of the 20th century. Ranging from the drawing rooms of England to the trenches of France, and moving between past and present, it is a haunting exploration of identity, loss and memory.
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- Vivien Newsome
- 19-04-23
Fascinating read looking back in time
A view on an older time and world How the world and its opinions has moved on
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-07-24
Nighy's reading enhances a text that, thankfully, is now seen as a central modernist work.
Few novel sequences could be better. The books are worth reading and re-reading. The audio is perfectly measured and Nighy is wonderful.
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- Amazon customer
- 26-02-24
Loved it
Sad when it ended. Vivid characters with interesting personalities, I will miss them and their world. Bill Nighy was fantastic as narrator. I’ve nothing but positive things to say about the whole story!
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- J. Lockwood
- 03-04-21
A real treat
I found this story accessible, moving and, in parts, very amusing. It is closer to Proust than anything I have read in English: a meandering storyline; introspection and “stream of consciousness”; characters who pop up again and again in the story; characters who are admirable, despicable or just plain hopeless.
Bill Nighy tackles this long, at times rambling text with its cast of upper class and working class characters admirably. His regional accents are well performed - though if I have one criticism, it is of the way the ‘lower’ classes in post-WWI Sussex all seem to speak with Northern accents. Nighy is not great at French or German either - but I think we can forgive him this. After all, I am not much good at acting!
This was a great introduction for me to the world of audiobooks. And also to a book that I hope I will come back to.
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- Lord Fauntleroy
- 23-10-24
Long and boring. (Stick with the TV series)
Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford is a frustratingly slow read, weighed down by excessive detail and a meandering plot. The fragmented writing style often makes it hard to follow, and Christopher Tietjens, while an interesting character, can come across as too distant and overly intellectual, which makes it hard to connect with him. Ford’s attempt to explore the upheavals of early 20th-century society gets lost in long-winded digressions, and for a novel meant to capture the emotional impact of war, it often feels strangely cold and detached.
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- Alison
- 31-10-24
Depressing and boring
I liked the narration but it’s very quiet.
The story is awfully dull. Just masses of repressed people, over-thinking about everything. Tedious.
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