Some Do Not... is the first book in Ford Madox Ford's epic four-volume masterpiece Parade's End. Set in 1912 and the early years of the First World War, it follows Christopher Tietjens, a man of rare intelligence and impossible principle, his cruelly elusive wife Sylvia, and Valentine Wannop, a young woman of independence and feeling who becomes bound to him in ways neither can easily name. Around them, Ford Madox Ford builds a world of social masks, sexual tensions, and gathering historical catastrophe that poignantly chronicles the effects of war and the collapse of an old world. Some Do Not... is the opening movement of one of the great modern novels of war and disillusionment. This Warbler Classics edition faithfully reproduces the original 1924 text and includes a detailed biographical timeline.