Download or read book Parade s End written by Ford Madox Ford and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental novel, divided into four separate books, celebrates the end of an era, the irrevocable destruction of the comfortable, predictable society that vanished during World War I.

Download or read book No More Parades written by Ford Madox Ford and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No More Parades is the second novel in Ford Madox Ford's series of four novels depicting the meeting, courtship, and ultimate fulfillment of two modern heroes, Christopher Tietjens and Valentine Wannop, despite social condemnation, personal travails, and World War I. Ford poured his own experiences as writer, lover, and soldier into these novels. No More Parades finds Christopher with the army in France. His efforts are going unrewarded, his wife is raising a scandal about him, and his love for Valentine Wannop has been buried deep beneath layers of responsibility. At the novel's climax, he must undergo extended interrogation to avoid a court-martial on charges of striking a superior officer, and that same morning his command is to be subjected to a formal inspection. Through Ford's eyes we see war and romance as wrapped in an irrational embrace

Download or read book Some Do Not written by Ford Medox Ford and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2022-05-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant, unconventional mathematician, is married to the dazzling yet unfaithful Sylvia, when, during a turbulent weekend, he meets a young Suffragette by the name of Valentine Wannop. Christopher and Valentine are on the verge of becoming lovers until he must return to his World War I regiment. Ultimately, Christopher, shell-shocked and suffering from amnesia, is sent back to London. An unforgettable exploration of the tensions of a society confronting catastrophe, sexuality, power, madness, and violence, this narrative examines time and a critical moment in history.

Download or read book The Last Post written by Ford Madox Ford and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following WWI, an English aristocrat struggles to find peace as he attempts to rebuild his life in this conclusion to the Parade’s End Tetralogy. The Great War is over. The ancestral home of Christopher Tietjens has been sold to an American. Christopher and Valentine Wannop now share a cottage with his brother and sister-in-law. A mathematician before the war, Christopher now earns a living selling antique furniture. It seems his world will be forever changed . . . Set over the course of one summer day, The Last Post follows its characters as they amble through a disorientating new world. Tensions arise for the inhabitants of the cottage. Valentine is pregnant and worried about her unmarried status as well as Christopher’s money troubles. Then Christopher’s estranged wife schemes to make their lives miserable. With the past haunting their present, the future seems uncertain for Christopher and Valentine. Praise for Parade’s End “The finest English novel about the Great War.” —Malcolm Bradbury “There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade’s End is one of them.” —W. H. Auden “The best novel by a British writer. . . . It is also the finest novel about the First World War. It is also the finest novel about the nature of British society.” —Anthony Burgess “The English prose masterpiece of the time.” —William Carlos Williams

Download or read book A Pig Parade Is a Terrible Idea written by Michael Ian Black and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could anything possibly be more fun than a pig parade!? You wouldn't think so. But you'd be wrong. A pig parade is a terrible idea. Pigs hate to march, refuse to wear the uniforms, don't care about floats, and insist on playing country music ballads. Those are just some of the reasons. And trust me, this hysterical book has plenty more!

Download or read book Everyone Loves a Parade written by Andrea Denish and published by Thinkingdom. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included on the SCBWI Recommended Reading List 2020 Everyone loves a parade, right? Well, almost everyone! In this colorful picture book, young readers can take a rollicking, rhyming journey through some of the most celebrated parades in the United States. Music, costumes, food, and fun. The sights and sounds of a parade are exciting! From Mardi Gras and Chinese New Year to St. Patrick's Day and LGBTQ+Pride, each celebration is a joy for kids, and most adults. With rhyming text and bold illustrations, children will love this festive and humorous look at some of the country's most well-known parades that features a surprise ending.

Download or read book The Parade s Gone By written by Kevin Brownlow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well illustrated book on history of silent movies

Download or read book The Night Parade written by Lily Roscoe and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bedtime book in the vein of Everywhere Babies, Harold and Purple Crayon, and In the Night Kitchen, THE NIGHT PARADE is a dreamworthy story.Have you ever wondered what happens at night while mothers and fathers lie sleeping?Children wake up. They climb out of their beds some crawling, some running, some leaping.As the moon shines down they escape into townTo the Night Parade they go sneaking...THE NIGHT PARADE is a goodnight book filled with the whimsical wilderness of children's imaginations just before they fall asleep. Written by first time author, Lily Roscoe, and illustrated by bestselling illustrator, David Walker, THE NIGHT PARADE is a truly dreamworthy read-aloud.

Download or read book War and the Mind written by Ashley Chantler and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length critical study of Parade's End to focus on the psychological effects of the war. Originally published in 4 volumes between 1924 and 1928, Parade's End has been described as 'the finest novel about the First World War' (Anthony Burgess), 'the greatest war novel ever written by an Englishman' (Samuel Hynes), 'a central Modernist novel of the 1920s, in which it is exemplary' (Malcolm Bradbury), and 'possibly the greatest 20th-century novel in English' (John N. Gray).These 10 newly commissioned essays focus on the psychological effects of the war, both upon Ford himself and upon his novel: its characters, its themes and its form. The chapters explore: Ford's pioneering analysis of war trauma, trauma theory, shell shock, memory and repression, insomnia, empathy, therapy, literary Impressionism and literary style. Writers discussed alongside Ford include Joseph Conrad, Siegfried Sassoon, May Sinclair, and Rebecca West, as well as theorists Deleuze and Guattari, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, William James, and W. H. R. Rivers.

Download or read book Stories from Suffragette City written by M. J. Rose and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One City. One Movement. A World of Stories. Stories from Suffragette City is a collection of short stories that all take place on a single day: October 23, 1915. It’s the day when tens of thousands of women marched up Fifth Avenue, demanding the right to vote in New York City. Thirteen of today's bestselling authors have taken this moment as inspiration to raise the voices of history and breathe fresh life into their struggles and triumphs. The characters depicted here, some well-known, others unfamiliar, each inspire and reinvigorate the power of democracy. We follow a young woman who is swept up in the protests when all she expected was to come sell her apples in the city. We see Alva Vanderbilt as her white-gloved sensibility is transformed over the course of the single fateful day. Ida B. Wells battles for racial justice in the women's suffrage movement so that every woman's voice can be heard. Each story stands on its own, but together Stories From Suffragette City becomes a symphony, painting a portrait of a country looking for a fight and ever restless for progress and equality. With an introduction by Kristin Hannah and stories from: Lisa Wingate M.J. Rose Steve Berry Paula McLain Katherine J. Chen Christina Baker Kline Jamie Ford Dolen Perkins-Valdez Megan Chance Alyson Richman Chris Bohjalian and Fiona Davis

Download or read book Miss Alaineus written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sages spelling and definition of a word reveal her misunderstanding of it to her classmates, she is at first embarrassed but then uses her mistake as inspiration for the vocabulary parade. Full color.

Download or read book The Good Soldier written by Ford Madox Ford and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Good Soldier A Tale of Passion by Ford Madox Ford At the fashionable German spa town Bad Nauheim, two wealthy, fin de siecle couples - one British, the other American - meet for their yearly assignation. As their story moves back and forth in time between 1902 and 1914, the fragile surface propriety of the pre - World War I society in which these four characters live is ruptured - revealing deceit, hatred, infidelity, and betrayal. "The Good Soldier" is Edward Ashburnham, who, as an adherent to the moral code of the English upper class, is nonetheless consumed by a passion for women younger than his wife - a stoic but fallible figure in what his American friend, John Dowell, calls "the saddest story I ever heard."

Download or read book Everybody Always written by Bob Goff and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if we stopped avoiding the difficult people in our lives and committed to simply loving everybody? What happens when we give away love like we're made of it? In Everybody, Always, Bob Goff's joyful New York Times bestselling follow-up to Love Does, you'll discover the secret to living without fear, constraint, or worry. Bob teaches us that the path toward the outsized, unfettered, liberated existence we all long for is found in one simple truth: love people, even the difficult ones, without distinction and without limits. In Everybody, Always, Bob shows us the simple truths about life that have the power to shift our mindset forever: Jesus uses our blind spots to reveal himself to us It's easy to love kind, lovely, humble people, but you have to tackle fear in order to love people who are difficult What we do with our love will become the conversations we have with God Dark and scary places are filled with beautiful people who need our unconditional love Extravagant love has extraordinary power to change lives, including our own Driven by Bob's trademark storytelling, this book reveals the wisdom Bob learned--often the hard way--about what it means to love without inhibition, insecurity, or restriction. From finding the right friends to discovering the upside of failure, Everybody, Always points the way to embodying love by doing the unexpected, the intimidating, the seemingly impossible. Whether losing his shoes while skydiving solo or befriending a Ugandan witch doctor, Bob steps into life with a no-limits embrace of others that is as infectious as it is extraordinarily ordinary. Everybody, Always reveals how we can do the same.

Download or read book The Queen Who Flew A Fairy Tale written by Ford Madox Ford and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Queen Who Flew is a captivating fairy tale about the Queen of an isolated kingdom, who had a bat as a friend. The bat tells her that when he was once unable to fly, he could overcome it with the help of a magical flower. He convinces the Queen that it can even give her the power to fly. It's a fascinating tale for young readers and makes a great bedtime story.

Download or read book Made to Parade written by Glenn Millar and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made to Parade shares the story of a young boy growing up in the middle of the Northern Ireland troubles, who found his passion in music by joining a marching band and learning to play the flute. Little did he know that this would be beneficial for him in so many ways, not only would he learn an instrument, he would develop new friendships, learn how to be part of a team and keep him out of the trouble happening all around him. Joining the band came as some major transitions happened in his life, and it helped him navigate his way through them. Join him on his journey, learning to play an instrument and making new friendships that would last the test of time.The story provides an inside look at the culture of Protestant marching bands in Northern Ireland. The marching band scene in Northern Ireland is massive and few outside its ranks understand its scale. Some 620 bands are active across the province and membership numbers make it the largest voluntary arts sector in Northern Ireland. Much of what has been written about marching bands has either been from an academic perspective or investigative journalism, the inside story of joining a marching band has never been shared like this before.

Download or read book We Never Wanted a Parade written by Donald Tackett (G.) and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book I Led the Parade written by Dean Gaschler and published by Legacy Book Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt Disney World is often called the happiest place on earth. Families visit to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, homecomings from war, victory over cancer, and mainly, together time. Visitors to the Magic Kingdom line Main Street and Liberty Square every afternoon to watch as Mickey and his pals fill the streets in a whimsical parade as a lucky family (or families) gets to lead it all. For fourteen years, Dean Gaschler had the privilege of choosing those families and often became friends with them. These are the stories of just a few of those families. Stories of hope, loss, love, and family that will warm your heart."