Some Do Not…

“The finest novel about the First World War.”
—Anthony Burgess

“The greatest war novel ever written by an Englishman.”
—Samuel Hynes

Some Do Not… is the first book in Ford Madox Ford’s epic four-volume masterpiece Parade’s End. Set in 1912 and the early years of the First World War, it follows Christopher Tietjens, a man of rare intelligence and impossible principle, his cruelly elusive wife Sylvia, and Valentine Wannop, a young woman of independence and feeling who becomes bound to him in ways neither can easily name. Around them, Ford Madox Ford builds a world of social masks, sexual tensions, and gathering historical catastrophe that poignantly chronicles the effects of war and the collapse of an old world. Some Do Not… is the opening movement of one of the great modern novels of war and disillusionment. This Warbler Classics edition faithfully reproduces the original 1924 text and includes a detailed biographical timeline.

FORD MADOX FORD (1873–1939) was born Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer in Kent, England. He was a prolific novelist, poet, critic, and editor whose influential journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review promoted the work of such writers as Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and D. H. Lawrence. Ford is best known for The Good Soldier, the Parade’s End tetralogy, and the The Fifth Queen trilogy.