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Some Do Not (Hardcover)
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Some Do Not (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R459
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Some Do Not (1924) is a novel by Ford Madox Ford. Set during the
First World War, the novel is the story of Christopher Tietjens, a
brilliant statistician and wealthy aristocrat known as "the last
Tory." As he moves from a faithless marriage into an affair of his
own, eventually volunteering to fight under dubious-perhaps
suicidal-motives, Tietjens appears both symbolic and tragically
human, a casualty of a dying era dedicating its final breaths to
death, despair, and destruction. Adapted for television twice-a
1964 series starring Ronald Hines and Judi Dench, as well as a 2012
series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall-Parade's End
is essential to Ford's reputation as a leading novelist of the
twentieth century. In the words of W. H. Auden, "There are not many
English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is
one of them." In the years of tenuous peace leading up to the Great
War, Christopher Tietjens is known as a brilliant man with a
distinguished past and a promising future ahead of him. Behind his
successful facade, however, he devotes himself to work in order to
avoid confronting his unfaithful wife Sylvia, a prominent
aristocrat. Additionally, Tietjens finds himself alienated by a
modernizing Britain, which no longer seems to belong to the landed
gentry from whom he descends. Caught up in a passionate affair with
a beautiful young Suffragette, despairing over his marriage and
social life, he decides to enlist in the army at the onset of war
with Germany, leaving his peers-but not his past-behind. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Ford Madox Ford's Some Do Not is a classic work of
British literature reimagined for modern readers.
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