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\nPart Two  \nNo More Parades Part One  \nPart Two  \nPart Three  \nA Man Could Stand Up—Part One  \nPart Two  \nPart Three  \nThe Last Post Part One  \nPart Two  \nCopyright  \nAbout the Book  \nChristopher Tietjens has long loved the beautiful young suffragette Valentine, but the pair are held apart by Christopher ’s loyalty to his wife Sylvia, despite her callous infidelities, and to a set of principles which belong to an old world, and which are about to be swallowed up in the mud and chaos of the Western Front. This majestic four-part novel is one of the finest achievements of nineteenth century literature.  \nAbout the Author  \nFord Madox Ford was born on 17 December 1873 in Merton, Devon. He began writing in the 1890s and both his fiction and his criticism are celebrated. His most famous works are The Good Soldier (1915) and Parade ’s End (1924–8) . Ford’s other major contribution to literature was the foundation of the English Review in which he published Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells, Henry James and gave debuts to Wyndham Lewis and D.H. Lawrence. He also founded the Transatlantic Review in 1924. Ford changed his surname from Hueffer in 1919 after serving in the British army in France during the First World War. After 1927 Ford lived in the United States and France. He died in Deauville on 26 June 1939.  \nAlso by Ford Madox Ford  \nThe Good Soldier  \nSOME DO NOT …  \nPART ONE  \nTHE TWO YOUNG men – they were of the English public official class – sat in the perfectly appointed railway carriage. The leather straps to the windows were of virgin newness; the mirrors beneath the new luggage racks immaculate as if they had reflected very little; the bulging upholstery in its luxuriant, regulated curves was scarlet and yellow in an intricate, minute dragon pattern, the design of a geometrician in Cologne. The compartmentsmelt faintly, hygienically of admirable varnish; the train ran as smoothly – Tietjens remembered thinking – as British gilt-edged securities. It travelled fast; yet had it swayed or jolted over the rail joints, except at the curve before Tonbridge or over the points at Ashford where these eccentricities are expected and allowed for, Macmaster, Tietjens felt certain, would have written to the company. Perhaps he would even have written to The Times.  \nTheir class administered the world, not merely the newly created Imperial Department of Statistics under Sir Reginald Ingleby. If they saw policemen misbehave, railway porters lack civility, an insufficiency of street lamps, defects in public services or in foreign countries, they saw toit, either with nonchalant Balliol voices, or with letters to The Times, asking in regretful indignation: ‘Has the British This or That come to this!’ Or they wrote, in the serious reviews of which so many still survived, articles taking under their care, manners, the Arts, diplomacy, inter-Imperial trade, or the personal reputations of deceased statesmen and men of letters.  \nMacmaster, that is to say, would do all that: of himself Tietjens was not so certain. There sat Macmaster; smallish; Whig; with a trimmed, pointed black beard, such as a smallish man might wear to enhance his already germinated distinction; black hair of a stubborn fibre, drilled down with hard metal brushes; a sharp nose; strong, level teeth; a white, butterfly collar of the smoothness of porcelain; a tie confined by a gold ring, steelblue speckled with black – to match his eyes, as Tietjens knew.  \nTietjens, on the other hand, could not remember what coloured tie he had on. He had taken a cab from the office to their rooms, had got himself into a loose, tailored coat and trousers, and a soft shirt, had packed quickly, but still methodically, a great number of things in an immense two-handled kitbag, which you could throw into a guard’s van if need be. He disliked letting that ‘man’ touch his thing","cbCaiaepe5w31v8i","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaepe5w31v8i","pdf",4336100,861,"English","# Part One\n## The Two Young Men","[{\"question\":\"Who are the two main men introduced at the start of Part One?\",\"answer\":\"The narrative introduces Christopher Tietjens and Macmaster as fellow travelers in the railway carriage.\"},{\"question\":\"What relationship tension defines Christopher Tietjens?\",\"answer\":\"Tietjens is held apart from his beloved suffragette Valentine by loyalty to his wife Sylvia and to old-world principles.\"},{\"question\":\"What historical force is described as swallowing those principles?\",\"answer\":\"The mud and chaos of the Western Front are presented as overtaking the principles the characters live by.\"}]","Parade's End - The Two Young Men - Part One | PDF",1326]