Books by c p snow

The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or ... More

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In the first of the Strangers and Brothers series Lewis Eliot tells the story of George Passant, a Midland solicitor's managing clerk and idealist ... More

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The fourth in the Strangers and Brothers series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and ... More

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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 ... More

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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 ... More

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In the eighth in the Strangers and Brothers series Donald Howard, a young science Fellow is charged with scientific fraud and dismissed from his ... More

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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 ... More

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This story told in the first person starts with a child's interest in the night sky. A telescope starts a lifetime's interest in science. The ... More

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Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the ... More

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Roger Mills is murdered during a boat party. Finbow, a man of sharp eye and keen understanding of human behaviour, manages to unravel the strands of ... More

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Homecomings is the sixth in the Strangers and Brothers series and sequel to Time of Hope. This complete story in its own right follows Lewis Eliot's ... More

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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 ... More

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Propelled to fame by his "Two Cultures" lecture, scientist-turned-novelist C. P. Snow (1905-1980) here tells a story of hatred and ambition at the ... More

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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 ... More

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Thomas Freer is a prosperous solicitor who is also the Registrar, responsible for his cathedral's legal business. His son Stephen is one of a secret ... More

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An expanded version of The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, originally published in l959. The two lectures constitute probably the most ... More

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An account of Trollope's early life: his pitiable childhood, an unwanted encumbrance to his parents; his shabby and miserable adolescence at Harrow ... More

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