A Man Could Stand Up

First published in 1926 A Man Could Stand Up is part three of Parade''s End Ford Madox Ford''s tetrology set in the World War I era (1914 to 1918) in England and in the trenches in France. Parade’s End is one of the outstanding works about World War I and British society before during and after that cataclysm.In A Man Could Stand Up the hero Christopher Tietjens and suffragette campaigner Valentine Wannop are united on Armistice Day.Ford Madox Ford (1873 – 1939) was an English novelist poet critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. He is now remembered best for his publications The Good Soldier the Parade''s End tetralogy and The Fifth Queen trilogy.