{"product_id":"some-do-not-9781513290775","title":"Some Do Not","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome Do Not\u003c\/i\u003e (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--\u003ci\u003eParade's End\u003c\/i\u003e 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: \u003ci\u003eParade's End\u003c\/i\u003e 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 façade, 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 \u003ci\u003eSome Do Not\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mint Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781513290775\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296","brand":"Ford Madox Ford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40240265068725,"sku":"9781513290775","price":11.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_40ce05f0-5971-49fc-8adf-e7cfed8bb639.jpg?v=1623728850","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/some-do-not-9781513290775","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}