# Some Do Not...

An audiobook by Ford Madox Ford, read by LibriVox volunteers (11 h 50 min, English).

Set immediately before and during the Great War, Some Do Not... is a tale of social cruelty among the English upper classes that pits real honour against shameless duplicity and subjects its principal characters to extremes of mental suffering that appear to be analogous to the (never directly described) physical horrors of the actual fighting. The plot revolves around the mores and desires of the intellectually brilliant but impossibly high-minded Christopher Tietjens, his icy wife Sylvia, and Valentine Wannop, a poor but well-educated young woman who loves Christopher, and is in many ways his moral and intellectual equal. In its time, the novel was unusual for its daring, often disorienting, use of flashbacks within scenes, for its scrambling together of interior and spoken dialog, and for the demand it places on the reader to interpret what is "really" taking place on the basis of slender and widely dispersed clues. As Julian Barnes has written "It will be a very rare reader who does not intermittently look up from the page to ask, ‘But did I know that? Have we been told that already or not?’ " Notwithstanding these difficulties, Malcolm Bradbury has described Parade's End, the…

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## Chapters

1. Part 1, Chapter 1 (48:19): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_01_ford_64kb.mp3
2. Part 1, Chapter 2 (49:25): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_02_ford_64kb.mp3
3. Part 1, Chapter 3, Section 1 (30:18): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_03_ford_64kb.mp3
4. Part 1, Chapter 3, Section 2 (19:13): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_04_ford_64kb.mp3
5. Part 1, Chapter 4 (40:29): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_05_ford_64kb.mp3
6. Part 1, Chapter 5, Section 1 (27:17): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_06_ford_64kb.mp3
7. Part 1, Chapter 5, Section 2 (34:39): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_07_ford_64kb.mp3
8. Part 1, Chapter 6, Section 1 (20:32): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_08_ford_64kb.mp3
9. Part 1, Chapter 6, Section 2 (29:50): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_09_ford_64kb.mp3
10. Part 1, Chapter 7 (47:28): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_10_ford_64kb.mp3
11. Part 2, Chapter 1, Section 1 (30:12): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_11_ford_64kb.mp3
12. Part 2, Chapter 1, Section 2 (19:27): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_12_ford_64kb.mp3
13. Part 2, Chapter 1, Section 3 (30:45): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_13_ford_64kb.mp3
14. Part 2, Chapter 2, Section 1 (25:32): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_14_ford_64kb.mp3
15. Part 2, Chapter 2, Section 2 (31:59): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_15_ford_64kb.mp3
16. Part 2, Chapter 3, Section 1 (53:35): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_16_ford_64kb.mp3
17. Part 2, Chapter 3, Section 2 (6:36): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_17_ford_64kb.mp3
18. Part 2, Chapter 4, Section 1 (22:01): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_18_ford_64kb.mp3
19. Part 2, Chapter 4, Section 2 (43:27): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_19_ford_64kb.mp3
20. Part 2, Chapter 4, Section 3 (32:01): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_20_ford_64kb.mp3
21. Part 2, Chapter 5 (47:38): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_21_ford_64kb.mp3
22. Part 2, Chapter 6 (18:49): https://archive.org/download/some_do_not_2105_librivox/somedonot_22_ford_64kb.mp3