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| Author | Ford Madox Ford |
|---|---|
| Series | Parade's End |
| Publisher | Duckworth (UK) Albert and Charles Boni (US) |
Publication date | 1928 |
| Pages | 292 pp. |
| OCLC | 558845397 |
| Preceded by | A Man Could Stand Up — |
Last Post is the fourth and final novel of Ford Madox Ford's highly regarded sequence of four novels, Parade's End.[1] It was published in January 1928 in the UK by Duckworth, and in the US under the title The Last Post by Albert and Charles Boni, and also the Literary Guild of America.
The book entered the public domain in the United States in 2024.[2]
- ^ Lloyd Morris wrote that the sequence was ‘one of the few real masterpieces of fiction that have been produced during our era’, in New York Herald Tribune Book Review (1 October 1950), 4. William Carlos Williams called the four volumes ‘the prose masterpiece of their time’, in Sewanee Review, LIX (January–March 1951), 154-161. W. H. Auden wrote that ‘There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade’s End is one of them’: ‘Il Faut Payer’, Mid-Century, 22 (February 1961), 3-10. For Samuel Hynes. it was ‘the greatest war novel ever written by an Englishman’, in ‘The Genre of No Enemy’, Antaeus, 56, (Spring 1986), 140.
- ^ Moss, Aaron (4 December 2023). "Public Domain Day 2024 is Coming: Here's What to Know". Copyright Lately. Retrieved 1 January 2024.