Classics · ThoughtfulChristopher Tietjens, a government statistician, lives through marriage, love and the First World War in four novels
Parade's End
A statistician's marriage and the First World War across four novels
Parade's End is made of four novels: Some Do Not (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up (1926) and Last Post (1928). They follow Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant government statistician from a wealthy landowning family, his flippant socialite wife Sylvia and the pacifist suffragist Valentine Wannop. The story begins in England before World War I and moves to the Western Front in France and Belgium. Last Post follows peacetime and postwar reconstruction.
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Who
Christopher Tietjens, Sylvia Tietjens and Valentine Wannop.
World
England before World War I, the Western Front in France and Belgium, and the postwar period.
What makes it different
Last Post is structured as interior monologues by characters close to Tietjens. Graham Greene left it out of his 1963 Bodley Head edition.
Feel
Dense and absorbing.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- Parade's EndWikipedia