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  • George Passant

    by C.P. Snow ...
    Series Book 1 - Strangers and Brothers
    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 who tries to bring freedom to a group of people in the years 1925 to 1933. ... Read more

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  • The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution

    by C P Snow ...
    This is the publication of the influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. Its thesis was that "the intellectual life of the whole of western society" was split into the titular two cultures - namely the sciences and the humanities - and that this was a major hindrance to solving the world's problems. Published in book form, Snow's lecture was widely read and ... Read more

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  • In Their Wisdom

    by C.P. Snow ...
    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. ... Read more

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  • The Malcontents

    by C.P. Snow ...
    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 group of young men and women known as the core. When Stephen’s group activities land them in terrible trouble, no one guesses that the consequences will lead to a death and more. ... Read more

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  • The Search

    by C.P. Snow ...
    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 narrator goes up to King’s College, London to study. As a fellow at Cambridge he embarks on love affairs and searches for love at the same time as career success. Finally, contentment in love exhausts his passion for research. ... Read more

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  • Time of Hope

    by C.P. Snow ...
    Series Book 1 - The Strangers and Brothers Novels
    A young man resolves to rise above his humble beginnings in the series praised as a "masterwork . . . a panorama of middle and upper-middle class English society" ( The New York Times).Nine-year-old Lewis Eliot learns that his father is bankrupt in the summer of 1914. This family crisis—and the tragedy that follows—shape his future, but with fierce willpower, he diligently studies and eventually ... Read more

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  • A Coat Of Varnish

    by C.P. Snow ...
    Humphrey Leigh, retired resident of Belgravia, pays a social visit to an old friend, Lady Ashbrook. She is waiting for her test results, fearing cancer. When Lady Ashbrook gets the all clear she has ten days to enjoy her new lease of life. And then she is found murdered. ... Read more

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  • Death Under Sail

    by C.P. Snow ...
    Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads. When his six guests find him at the tiller of his yacht with a smile on his face and a gunshot through his heart, all six fall under suspicion in this, C P Snow’s first novel. ... Read more

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  • The Physicists

    by C.P. Snow ...
    C P Snow’s sketches of famous physicists and explanation of how atomic weapons were developed gives an overview of science often lacking. This study provides us with hope for the future as well as anecdotes from history. ... Read more

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  • The Two Cultures

    by C. P. Snow ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures – the arts or humanities on one hand and the sciences on the other – has a long history. But it was C. P. Snow's Rede lecture of 1959 that brought it to prominence and began a public debate that is still raging in the media today. This fiftieth anniversary printing of The ... Read more

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  • The Light And The Dark

    by C.P. Snow ...
    Series Book 2 - Strangers and Brothers
    The Light and the Dark 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. Roy Calvert is a brilliant but controversial linguist who is about to be elected to a fellowship. ... Read more

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  • The Masters

    by C.P. Snow ...
    Series Book 5 - The Strangers and Brothers Novels
    Winner of the James Tait Black Prize: An "engrossing" novel of power, politics, and academic rivalry in 1930s England ( The New York Times).In 1937, the dark cloud of Nazi Germany hangs over Europe. Meanwhile, barrister Lewis Eliot is comfortably settled at Cambridge College, which is currently astir thanks to the imminent death of an ailing master. Little does the dying master know that two men ... Read more

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