About this title: Roy Calvert and his friend Lewis Eliot (now a legal don) are involved in the choice between two men for a new master at a Cambridge college: the cold, inhumane, but renowned scientist Crawford, or a literary scholar named Paul Jago, a warm and humble man full of sympathy for the human condition. The conflict in the novel prefigures Snow's later ...
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Edition: Paperback First
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Doubleday
Description: Good. Unknown pub. date. faint spine crease, w/ nick at bottom, light edge chipping and a small scar at bottom of front cover from label removal. lightly tanned, read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PENGUIN
Date Published: 1959-01-01
Description: Fair. Paperback. Acceptable to Good Condition. Penquin Books #1089. First published 1951, this copy 1959 reprint. Cover shows wear to edges, corners and tears at spine tips. Minor spine creasing and some spien slope. Cover is sunned and show minor soiling. Pages are sunned to edges, no markings. Binding is good. Location: MBP. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Book has some water damage, but book is still completely readable. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Book shows wear to cover edges and spine. Spine has creases. Corners bent/rounded. Cover may have folds or creases. Otherwise in good reading condition. read more
Binding: Unknown Binding
Publisher: Anchor
Date Published: 1951
Description: Good. ---352 pgs. Interior-Normal signs of use w/ some marking. The paperback cover has light signs of use. -Publish Place: Garden City, New York-Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
Date Published: 1951
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Some wear on corners and cover; tape stains and previous owner's name on first page; other pages are clean and unmarked; spine is tight. 374 p. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin, New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: No Illustration. Good. ILLUSTRATED SOFT COVER COVER WITH LIGHT STAINING AND LIGHT SOILING, CORNERS BUMPED, TEAR TO HINGE, SHELFWEAR TO EDGES. INTERIOR PAGES HAVE MODERATE STAINING. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780140010893ISBN:0140010890
Description: Good. Page colour-Slightly discoloured in accordance with book age. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
"My economics professor recommended this book to me. I finally found it at the strand (for only 48 cents). I think he was saying that this book is a good example of ex-ante transaction costs in governance structures that use elections. The book also has interesting descriptions of college life and the ambitions of the professors involved in the election, which go far beyond the intellectual."
"This novel was recommended to me by my brilliant, swoon-inducing Dutch accompanist, Maurice. It's about the politics of one of those old English colleges. I remember particularly admiring how deftly C.P. Snow develops his characters."
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