Download or read book Corridors Of Power written by C.P. Snow and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The corridors and committee rooms of Whitehall are the setting for the ninth in the Strangers and Brothers series. They are also home to the manipulation of political power. Roger Quaife wages his ban-the-bomb campaign from his seat in the Cabinet and his office at the Ministry.
Download or read book Corridors of power The sleep of reason Last things written by Charles Percy Snow and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Last Things written by C.P. Snow and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last in the Strangers and Brothers series has Sir Lewis Eliot’s heart stop briefly during an operation. During recovery he passes judgement on his achievements and dreams.
Download or read book The Sleep of Reason written by C. P. Snow and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2008-11-21 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The penultimate novel in the Strangers and Brothers series takes Goya's theme of monsters that appear in our sleep. The sleep of reason here is embodied in the ghastly murders of children that involve torture and sadism.
Download or read book C P Snow s Strangers and Brothers as Mid twentieth century History written by Terrance L. Lewis and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies C.P. Snow's eleven-volume series of novels (Strangers and Brothers) as documents detailing the social and political life of mid-twentieth-century Britain, and points out the uses for the novels in the academic study of that time period. Both Snow and his central character, Lewis S. Eliot, started from unremarkable origins in terms of their mutual background in the lower reaches of the middle class, their dreams of success in their teen years, and their early professional education in a new, struggling academic institution in the mid-1920s. Neither could really be considered typical for men of their class. Eliot's working life would include being a very minor town clerk, a barrister, an advisor to a powerful industrialist, a Cambridge don, a moderately powerful civil servant, and finally, in early retirement, a writer. Eliot would befriend members of both the traditional and Jewish upper classes, scholars and brilliant scientists, powerful behind-the-scenes civil servants, second-tier British and Nazi politicians, financiers and industrialists, Communists, and writers and artists, providing a fairly broad overview of parts of the middle class and ruling elites of the periods. Snow's sequence of novels is therefore useful to the historian of twentieth-century Britain, both in understanding the period as it recedes away from common experience and in presenting the period in the classroom. Snow was a classic twentieth-century writer who presented a more balanced account of the British «governing classes» of the middle third of the twentieth century than did the upper-class (and would-be upper-class) or working-class writers of the same period. His novels provide an insight that every student of twentieth-century Britain must have on hand.
Download or read book The Sleep Of Reason written by C.P. Snow and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The penultimate novel in the Strangers and Brothers series takes Goya’s theme of monsters that appear in our sleep. The sleep of reason here is embodied in the ghastly murders of children that involve torture and sadism.
Download or read book Strangers and Brothers written by Charles Percy Snow and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers is a roman fleuve comprising eleven novels and covering a period of more than fifty years. The entire sequence is narrated by Lewis Eliot, an intelligent, sensitive, and decent man whose life progresses against the backdrop of some of the critical events of twentieth century history. The sequence is divided into novels of “direct experience” and “observed experience.” Although Lewis Eliot is present in the novels of “observed experience,” his personal life is given a secondary role, as he concentrates on several figures who have played crucial roles in his life. Snow carefully establishes his narrator’s emotional makeup in Time of Hope (which, though Snow’s third book in the series, precedes George Passant and The Light and the Dark in the narrative chronology). Set primarily in an unnamed provincial town in the Midlands of England, the novel depicts Lewis’ early years, characterized by a sense of insecurity stemming from the Eliot family’s genteel poverty following the bankruptcy of his father during World War I. -- From https://www.enotes.com/topics/strangers-brothers (Feb. 25, 2019).
Download or read book C P Snow written by N. Tredell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist and cultural commentator C.P. Snow was a large and controversial presence in his lifetime but his work has been largely neglected since his death in 1980. This is the first 21st-century book to offer a clear, informed and sympathetic survey of all his novels and major non-fiction books and to affirm their importance for the world today.
Download or read book The Light And The Dark written by C.P. Snow and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second in the Strangers and Brothers series. The story is set in Cambridge, but the plot also moves to Monte Carlo, Berlin and Switzerland. Lewis Eliot narrates the career of a childhood friend, a brilliant but controversial linguist about to be elected to a fellowship.
Download or read book Time Of Hope written by C.P. Snow and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time of Hope is the third in the Strangers and Brothers series and tells the story of Lewis Eliot’s early life. As a child he is faced with his father’s bankruptcy. As a young man, he finds his career at the Bar hindered by a neurotic wife. Separation from her is impossible however.
Download or read book Strangers and Brothers written by Charles Percy Snow and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book C P Snow and the Struggle of Modernity written by John de la Mothe and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The condition of modernity springs from that tension between science and the humanities that had its roots in the Enlightenment but reached its full flowering with the rise of twentieth-century technology. It manifests itself most notably in the crisis of individuality that is generated by the nexus of science, literature, and politics, one that challenges each of us to find a way of balancing our personal identities between our public and private selves in an otherwise estranging world. This challenge, which can only be expressed as "the struggle of modernity," perhaps finds no better expression than in C. P. Snow. In his career as novelist, scientist, and civil servant, C. P. Snow (1905-1980) attempted to bridge the disparate worlds of modern science and the humanities. While Snow is often regarded as a late-Victorian liberal who has little to say about the modernist period in which he lived and wrote, de la Mothe challenges this judgment, reassessing Snow's place in twentieth-century thought. He argues that Snow's life and writings—most notably his Strangers and Brothers sequence of novels and his provocative thesis in The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution—reflect a persistent struggle with the nature of modernity. They manifest Snow's belief that science and technology were at the center of modern life.
Download or read book The New Men written by C.P. Snow and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the Strangers and Brothers series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal reactions.
Download or read book The Affair written by C.P. Snow and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighth in the Strangers and Brothers series Donald Howard, a young science Fellow is charged with scientific fraud and dismissed from his college. This novel, which became a successful West End play, describes a miscarriage of justice in the same Cambridge college which served as a setting for The Masters.
Download or read book A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English written by Harry Blamires and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1983, A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English is a detailed and comprehensive guide containing over 500 entries on individual writers from countries including Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the UK. The book contains substantial articles relating to major novelists, poets, and dramatists of the age, as well as a wealth of information on the work of lesser-known writers and the part they have played in cultural history. It focuses in detail on the character and quality of the literature itself, highlighting what is distinctive in the work of the writers being discussed and providing key biographical and contextual details. A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English is ideal for those with an interest in the twentieth century literary scene and the history of literature more broadly.
Download or read book In Their Wisdom written by C.P. Snow and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic storm clouds gather as bad political weather is forecast for the nation. Three elderly peers look on from the sidelines of the House of Lords and wonder if it will mean the end of a certain way of life. Against this background is set a court struggle over a disputed will that escalates into an almighty battle.
Download or read book George Passant written by C.P. Snow and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wise, moving novel about a mentor and his protégé: “The central character . . . is immensely appealing . . . a peculiarly haunting and sympathetic figure.” —The New York Times In late 1920s England, Lewis Eliot is building a career in law and has found a mentor in George Passant. The quirky small-town solicitor’s clerk has much wisdom to share from his years of experience—during which he has also managed to hold on to his idealism. Eliot is just one of the many young devotees drawn to Passant, hoping for guidance from the man who’s always ready to extend a loan or a listening ear. However, the young men will have to learn to fly on their own—and come to Passant’s aid themselves—in this absorbing novel by “an extremely shrewd observer of men and society” (Commentary). “An enlightened discussion of questions of conscience and conduct and commitment. . . . Filled with the concerns which are so fundamentally and essentially a part of this writer’s work and have attracted a firm following.” —Kirkus Reviews Originally published under the title Strangers and Brothers
