Parade’s End

　　A story of love, passion, cruelty and tragedy set against the backdrop of the First World War.

　　Ford Madox Ford's monumental novel comes to our screens this autumn as a major BBC adaptation with a screenplay by the legendary playwright Tom Stoppard.

　　A stella cast - Benedict Cumberbatch, Rupert Everett, Rebecca Hall, Carey Mulligan and Miranda Richardson - tell the story of aristocrat Christopher Tietjens's troubled relationship with his socialite wife, Sylvia, and his love affair with high-spirited suffragette Valentine during the turbulent years between 1911 and the end of the First World War.

作者簡介

　　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 best remembered for The Good Soldier (1915), the Parade's End tetralogy (1924–28) and The Fifth Queen trilogy (1906–08). The Good Soldier is frequently included among the great literature of the past century, including the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, The Observer's '100 Greatest Novels of All Time', and The Guardian's '1000 novels everyone must read