A Man Could Stand Up: Parade's End, Volume III

By Ford Madox Ford

“The finest English novel about the Great War” – Malcolm Bradbury, Guardian

A Man Could Stand Up is the third novel of Ford Madox Ford's highly regarded tetralogy about the First World War, Parade's End. It was published in 1926, and was extraordinarily well-reviewed.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Woolf Haus Publishing
• Release date: Sep 3, 2019
• ISBN: 9781925788228

Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) was an English author, editor, and poet best known for his novel The Good Soldier, which is considered to be one of the best works of literature of the twentieth century.

Reviews for A Man Could Stand Up

[kukulaj · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Major Tietjens in the trenches at a very hot spot a few months before the end of the war, that's the meat of the book, and then Miss Wannop in London on Armistice day forms the bookends. The entire action on the front might be just half an hour or so. There is nothing dull or contrived in it at all. There is a nice sentence or two here that captures the notion of aristocracy that Tietjens carries around in his head, how a gentleman should do nothing at all. And some nobless oblige, about keeping the tenant farmers well equipped etc. There some mention too of the 1918 influenza pandemic, rather timely for me as I read this in the covid-19 pandemic. Ha, the opening part with Miss Wannop covers a full ten minutes, so that's even more compressed! The whole thing is really top notch!

[jeffome · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Part 3 of Ford's 'Parade's End' quartet. The style of writing and constant references to things of which i have no knowledge still is a problem for me. Very little happens in this volume. I am not really sure if this book could ever be read alone to the point that anyone would have any idea what was going on.Thus the other 2 previous volumes have saved me. This did have some rather graphic representations of what it was like to actually be in the trenches of WWI, and for that, I am appreciative. Much of the book is one man's sense of what this war chapter of his life is for him and the mental gymnastics necessary to not go mad. So the writing style is actually remarkably accurate as to how our minds are constantly jumping around from seemingly random topic to random topic....but it is much easier to follow when it is in your own mind! While these books are struggling to reach the 3 star level from me, my 3-volume investment thus far is such that i will definitely finish the 4th of the set, but only after a break with something with a little less heft. [Oh, and i love these original little orange Penguin Books paperbacks!!]