Four novels in one - the Tietjens tetralogy which many people regard as Ford's finest achievement. He put a good deal of himself and his own experiences into it, including his broken marriage, his service in the first World War (probably much mythologised), above all his conception of himself as a chivalrous English officer-and-gentleman pursued by ill-luck and the malice and pettiness of other people. The volumes, in order of appearance, are Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, and The Last Post, which was written as a kind of postlude. Personally I think The Good Soldier, written a decade earlier, is a better novel than any of the quartet individually, but as a unit they are certainly far superior to, say, Mottram's Spanish Farm trilogy.
B.F.