{"product_id":"9781847770158","title":"Parade's End, Volume IV: Last Post","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLast Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, the fourth and final volume of \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eParade's End\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, is set on a single post-war summer's day. Valentine Wannop and Christopher Tietjens share a cottage in Sussex with Tietjens' brother and sister-in-law. Through their differing perspectives, Ford explores the tensions between his characters in a changing world, haunted by the experience of war, facing an insecure future for themselves and for England. The Tietjens' ancestral home has been let to an American, its great tree felled; those like Tietjens who have served in the war find there is no place for them in a demoralised civilian society. The celebrations of Armistice Day have been replaced by the uncertainties of peacetime. 'How are we to live?' asks Valentine, as a death and an imminent birth bring Ford's great sequence to a close.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis edition of \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLast Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe first reliable text based on the hand-corrected typescript of first editions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea major critical introduction by Paul Skinner, editor of Ford's novel \u003ci\u003eNo Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e and of \u003ci\u003eFord Madox Ford: Literary Contacts\u003c\/i\u003e (International Ford Madox Ford Studies 6)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e an account of the novel's composition and reception\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eannotations explaining historical references and literary and topical allusions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea full textual apparatus including transcriptions of significant deletions and revisions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea bibliography of further reading\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062106538224,"sku":"9781847770158","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781847770158_p0.jpg?v=1763748755","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781847770158","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}