All Else Is Folly. A Tale of War and Passion.
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| Title: | All Else Is Folly. A Tale of War and Passion. | ||||||||
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| Published: | 1929 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | McClelland & Stewart, Limited | ||||||||
| Tags: | adventure, fiction, war, World War I, one book author | ||||||||
| Description: | Peregrine Acland's novel All Else Is Folly is an irreplaceable depiction of the Canadian experience in the First World War. More than just a devastating portrayal of the terrors and hardships of trench warfare, the novel is also a profound meditation on the nature of man, one that draws on both the Nietzschean notion of man as warrior and Havelock Ellis's idea of man as lover. Subtitled "a tale of war and passion," the novel was something of a bestseller in its time and drew significant critical praise. Canadian Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden remarked: "No more vivid picture has been painted of what war meant to the average soldier." [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Pages: | 116  |
Author Bio for Ford, Ford Madox
Ford is now remembered for his publications The Good Soldier (1915), the Parade's End tetralogy (1924–28) and The Fifth Queen trilogy (1906–08). The Good Soldier is frequently included among the great literature of the 20th century, including the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, The Observer's "100 Greatest Novels of All Time", and The Guardian's "1000 novels everyone must read".
Ford wrote dozens of novels as well as essays, poetry, memoirs and literary criticism. He collaborated with Joseph Conrad on three novels, The Inheritors (1901), Romance (1903) and The Nature of a Crime (1924, although written much earlier). During the three to five years after this direct collaboration, Ford's best known achievement was The Fifth Queen trilogy (1906–1908), historical novels based on the life of Katharine Howard, which Conrad termed, at the time, "the swan song of historical romance." Ford's poem Antwerp (1915) was praised by T.S. Eliot as "the only good poem I have met with on the subject of the war".--Wikipedia.
Author Bio for Acland, Peregrine Palmer
Peregrine Palmer Acland (1891-1963) was a Canadian author. Born in Toronto, he attended Upper Canada College. He graduated in 1913 but shortly thereafter he enlisted in the army at the start of World War I. He fought and was wounded in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. He served as military instructor for the remainder of the war. He is known for his one novel, "All Else is Folly: A Tale of War and Passion" which was highly praised for its vivid portrayal of trench warfare. (Library and Archives Canada)
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