Book description
Love, politics, alienation, change. CP Snow tackled the "big topics". These books using as a focal point a provincial Englishman of humble origin who works his way up the rungs of law, into academia, and finally into government. These novels trace the narrator, Lewis Elliot, from his early small town days through his first entry into academia. Snow’s style is easy, deliberate, and narrative–these books are not "experimental" in any sense, but instead are a "good read" in the best old-fashioned sense. Have you ever wished for books with both good plots and artistic merit? Then you must begin here.
Snow understood a lot about us–that sometimes the most brilliant personalities are not the most successful, that the politics of small groups and the politics of large groups are entirely different, and that both faith and love have odd play with those whom they possess from time to time, and in Strangers and Brothers he spins his themes out well….
CONTENTS:
The Masters
The New Man
Homecomings
The Affair
