Some Do Not...

This is a brilliant depiction of English society in the years right before WWI. It isn't a light read nor is the protagonist, Christopher Tietjens, an easy conduit for modern readers, but he is a true Hero in the best sense of the word. A man who lives by moral and intellectual codes that may seem absurd to others but by which he abides in spite of great hardship to himself, such as sacrificing a great love so as to not shame (by divorcing her) a woman who has cuckolded him & even placed in doubt the paternity of their child. He is as he says in a later volume of the whole a 17th Century man & will always be and I love him for it.