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  • A CALL THE TALE OF TWO PASSIONS
    FORD MADOX FORD
    Excerpt: "It was once said of Mr. Robert Grimshaw: “That chap is like a seal”—and the simile was a singularly just one. He was like a seal who is thrusting his head and shoulders out of the water, and, with large, dark eyes and sensitive nostrils, is on the watch. All that could be known of him seemed to be known; all that could be known of the rest of the world he moved in he ...

    $39.70

  • NO MORE PARADES
    FORD MADOX FORD
    No More Parades is the second book in Ford Madox Ford’s landmark No More Parades series. It sets forth the maddening chaos that is war, from the meddling of civilians who have no knowledge or care of how much pain and disaster their meddling will cause to the destruction of relationships and lives brought on by the stress of war. This second instalment focuses on the main chara...

    $19.00

  • REVIVAL: PROVENCE FROM MINSTRELS TO THE MACHINE (1938)
    FORD MADOX FORD
    "Provence" may perhaps be described as the crystallisation of the main idea running through the Great Trade Route, which we published a year ago. Of that book Mr A.G. McDonnell wrote in the Observer: "It is an Indictment, a Philipic....I know of no books to compare with this since Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man" But if "The Great Trade Route" was the destructive onslaught on ...

    $1,760.00

  • A MAN COULD STAND UP
    FORD MADOX FORD
    As WWI ends, trauma and tragedy give way to a chance for new life and rekindled love in the third novel of the acclaimed Parade's End tetralogy. Armistice Day, 1918. As fireworks proclaim the end of the Great War, Valentine Wannop learns that the man she loves, Christopher Tietjens, is back in London. He has survived the frontlines, but it has affected him profoundly. He is wil...

    $85.00

  • NO MORE PARADES
    FORD MADOX FORD
    An Englishman struggles to preserve his dignity in the face of intrigue, deceit, and WWI in the second novel of the celebrated Parade's End tetralogy.   Christopher Tietjens is an officer and a gentleman, but when he meets the beautiful and spirited Valentine Wannop, he is driven to finally betray his loveless marriage. However, before their love can be consummated, Christopher...

    $85.00

  • SOME DO NOT . . .
    FORD MADOX FORD
    The first novel in the author's celebrated Parade's End Tetralogy explores the social tensions between marriage, sex, and honor at the outbreak of WWI. London, 1910s. Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant mathematician, shows little emotion when his wife, Sylvia, leaves him for her lover. But when she tires of the romantic pursuit and informs Christopher of her desire to return to ...

    $85.00

  • THE GOOD SOLDIER
    FORD MADOX FORD
    After his wife's death, a man untangles the truth of her infidelity, in this masterful novel of pre-WWI England by the celebrated author of Parade's End. When John Dowell and his wife, Florence, leave America for a stay at a German spa, they meet Capt. Edward Ashburn and his wife, Leonora. The two couples develop a close friendship that lasts for years—until Florence dies and J...

    $85.00

  • EL IMPULSO
    FORD FORD MADOX
    «El impulso» es la historia de un suicidio y una sustitución. Henry Martin, un prototipo de su época, la de la Gran Depresión, cansado y vencido, acaricia la idea de morir, aunque la reflexión le lleva a querer ser otro, el despreocupado Hugh Monckton, un personaje al que le hubiese gustado parecerse. Ford Madox Ford, en una carta que escribe a Erza Pound en 1933, declara que «...
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    $615.00