Last Post by Ford Madox Ford audiobook.
Genre: drama
Last Post, the quietly devastating final volume of Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End tetralogy, is an elegiac meditation on memory, loss and the slow unravelling of an era. Set in the uneasy aftermath of the First World War, the novel follows Christopher Tietjens — rigid, honorable, and emotionally reserved — as he navigates the wreckage of marriage, class and conscience while the world around him slips into a new, less certain order. Ford’s prose moves between wry clarity and haunting interior reverie, rendering ordinary scenes — a country house, a ruined estate, a brief encounter — as charged with the weight of history and private regret. Listeners will be drawn into the subtle, often painful dynamics between Christopher, the mercurial Sylvia and the idealistic Valentine, experiencing through voice and rhythm the novel’s moral complexities and its spare, music-like cadences. For anyone who loves character-driven literature, psychological nuance and the elegiac beauty of modernist writing, Last Post is an immersive, emotionally rich audiobook that lingers long after the final line.
Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 00
(00:07:14) Chapter 01
(00:40:34) Chapter 02
(01:16:21) Chapter 03
(01:46:30) Chapter 04
(02:32:27) Chapter 05
(03:19:58) Chapter 06
(03:47:24) Chapter 07
(04:22:57) Chapter 08
(05:01:00) Chapter 09
(05:37:53) Chapter 10
(06:25:07) Chapter 11
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