Eric Knight - Légy hű magadhoz

I think everything I've ever done and written was just a preparation for this book,' said the author about his works, and although he didn't write an autobiographical novel, we can point to Eric Knight's life journey and deep humanism in the fate and world view of his hero. A year before his death, he finished the masterpiece of his life, this novel, every line of which is imbued with a sense of responsibility to tell the truth. The Second World War is raging, bombs are falling on England, the life of British society is being painfully disrupted. That's when two young people meet: Prudence, a rich aristocratic girl, and Clive, a low-class boy. They fall in love with each other, plan their future lives, which both of them suspect deep down is just a wishful dream, an illusion that beautifies horrors...