Four Studies In Loyalty
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
At a moment when the moral architecture of the modern world lay in ruins, Christopher Sykes turned his incisive pen to one of the most enduring of human virtues — loyalty. Four Studies in Loyalty presents four distinct biographical portraits, each illuminating a different facet of fidelity, devotion, and personal honour through the lives of remarkable individuals whose allegiances were tested by war, politics, and the turbulent currents of twentieth-century history. Written with the elegant precision of a seasoned man of letters, the work chronicles its subjects with both intimacy and scholarly rigour, drawing the reader into the complex moral worlds each figure inhabits. Sykes, himself a writer of considerable range — novelist, biographer, and later the authorised biographer of Evelyn Waugh — brings a rare combination of wit and moral seriousness to these portraits. The book stands as a quietly remarkable document of its era, published in 1946 when questions of allegiance and betrayal resonated with urgent, lived meaning. Each study functions simultaneously as biography, moral essay, and historical testimony, leaving the reader to wonder precisely where loyalty ends and the more dangerous passions of conviction and obsession begin.
Author: Christopher Sykes
Format: Hardback
Published: 1946, Collins
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
At a moment when the moral architecture of the modern world lay in ruins, Christopher Sykes turned his incisive pen to one of the most enduring of human virtues — loyalty. Four Studies in Loyalty presents four distinct biographical portraits, each illuminating a different facet of fidelity, devotion, and personal honour through the lives of remarkable individuals whose allegiances were tested by war, politics, and the turbulent currents of twentieth-century history. Written with the elegant precision of a seasoned man of letters, the work chronicles its subjects with both intimacy and scholarly rigour, drawing the reader into the complex moral worlds each figure inhabits. Sykes, himself a writer of considerable range — novelist, biographer, and later the authorised biographer of Evelyn Waugh — brings a rare combination of wit and moral seriousness to these portraits. The book stands as a quietly remarkable document of its era, published in 1946 when questions of allegiance and betrayal resonated with urgent, lived meaning. Each study functions simultaneously as biography, moral essay, and historical testimony, leaving the reader to wonder precisely where loyalty ends and the more dangerous passions of conviction and obsession begin.