SOURCE: "Ford's Masterpiece Now Reappears," in New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review, October 1, 1950, p. 4.

Morris was an American biographer, critic, social historian, essayist, and pioneering educator who is credited with introducing contemporary literature courses to the American university system in the 1920s. In the following review of Parade's End, he suggests that Ford is the literary equal of James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Franz Kajka.

Here, finally presented as its author wished, is one of the major English novels of the twentieth century. Parade's End brings together four books by Ford Madox Ford, first published between 1924 and 1928, and long out of print: Some Do Not …; No More Parsdes; A Man Could Stand Up and The Last Post. Issued separately and at intervals, these books were read as a series of novels having the same central characters and a common theme. But Ford intended them to be read...