Parade’s End – Part 1: Some Do Not … (Parade’s End Tetralogy) [full stream]

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The first volume of Parade’s End introduces the central characters: Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant, unconventional mathematician; his dazzling but unfaithful wife Sylvia; and the young Suffragette Valentine Wannop. It starts with the cataclysmic meeting of Tietjens and Valentine: a weekend whose violence prefigures the coming war. It ends in 1917 as the two are on the verge of becoming lovers, before Tietjens prepares to return to the Front and probable death. Some Do Not …is an hard to shake exploration of the tensions of a society facing catastrophe, as the energies of sexuality and power erupt in madness and violence.

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