Some Do Not

<p><I>Some Do Not</I> (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-<I>Parade's End</I> 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: <I>Parade's End</I> 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 fa��ade 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 <I>Some Do Not</I> is a classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers.</p>