Some Do Not ... (Annotated)

Some Do Not ... (1924), the opening volume of Ford Madox Ford's tetralogy Parade's End, anatomizes the disintegration of Edwardian England through the troubled life of Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant, anachronistically honorable statistician trapped in a destructive marriage and a collapsing social order. Its fractured chronology, interiorized narration, and ironic social comedy place it at the ...