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  • George Passant

    by C.P. Snow ...
    Series Book 2 - The Strangers and Brothers Novels
    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 TimesIn 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 ... Read more

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  • The New Men

    by C.P. Snow ...
    Series Book 6 - The Strangers and Brothers Novels
    Winner of the James Tait Black Prize: Two brothers find themselves at odds amid Britain's quest for an atomic weapon, in this vivid historical novel.As the Second World War begins to rage, Britain's brightest minds put their efforts into the development of atomic munitions, laboring away in a closely guarded research station in a Warwickshire village. Lewis Eliot, in a stint as a civil servant, ... Read more

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  • Corridors of Power

    by C.P. Snow ...
    Series Book 9 - The Strangers and Brothers Novels
    This novel of 1950s Britain offers "a sound reading of the political, moral, ideological temper of the times; a substantial achievement" ( Kirkus Reviews).An ambitious MP and cabinet minister, Roger Quaife has strong opinions about the nuclear arms race that's been escalating in the postwar era. Lewis Eliot agrees with him on the issue, despite the hostile reaction Quaife's position has received. ... Read more

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  • The Affair

    by C.P. Snow ...
    Series Book 8 - The Strangers and Brothers Novels
    An academic is accused of fraud in this novel set in 1950s England by "an extremely shrewd observer of men and society" ( Commentary).At Lewis Eliot's Cambridge college, Dr. Donald Howard is not well liked. Some believe his research to be subpar, and his far-left politics off-putting. So no one much mourns when Howard is fired for committing academic fraud. Eliot, though, is disturbed when new ... Read more

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  • Homecomings

    by C.P. Snow ...
    Series Book 7 - The Strangers and Brothers Novels
    An emotionally devastated widower is drawn to a married woman in this "impressive" novel set in wartime England ( Kirkus Reviews).Lewis Eliot has lost his deeply troubled wife, Sheila, under tragic circumstances. While her suicide has shaken Lewis to his core, it has also put an end to a painful and difficult marriage. In the wake of Sheila's passing and Britain entering the Second World War, ... Read more

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  • Last Things

    by C.P. Snow ...
    Series Book 11 - The Strangers and Brothers Novels
    A brush with death may finally bring a father and son together, in the conclusion to the award-winning, decades-spanning series.Sir Lewis Eliot has made his way from a deprived childhood to knighthood, but when he experiences cardiac arrest during surgery, his thoughts turn to the meaning of it all. As he considers a life spent in the realms of law, government, and academia, he can't refrain from ... Read more

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  • The Seaglass Blade

    by J.C. Snow ...
    A found family fights for their lives with everything they have.Aili Fallon, the world's last master of the spiritual sword, has spent three hundred years guarding a hidden home for all those she loves. She's determined to protect her phoenix wife and their children from human cruelty and demonic corruption—even if their safety will always depend on secrecy.But after a brutal, inexplicable demonic ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, The

    by C. P. Snow ...
    Narrated by Jason McCoy ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 23 min

    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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    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Sleep of Reason

    by C.P. Snow ...
    Series Book 10 - The Strangers and Brothers Novels
    With England on the brink of disruptive social change, a man revisits his past—and confronts a monstrous crime—in this novel of "clarity and perceptiveness" ( The Atlantic).In his late middle age, semi-retired Lewis Eliot, accompanied by his teenage son, journeys to the provincial town where he spent his poverty-stricken boyhood—and where his father is now dying. The London of the 1960s is ... Read more

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  • The Sweetheart Of Stevenage

    by C.P. Snowe ...
    All she wanted was her own Happy Ever After. A devoted husband. A brood of little children. A home filled with love and happiness. But the dashing and driven Lord Julian Ashford swept into Lady Gabriella Coatsworth’s life almost as fast as he deserted her. A broken heart and a baby in her belly were the only evidence of their short-lived affair.She never should have told him she loved him ... 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 Conscience of the Rich

    by C.P. Snow ...
    Series Book 3 - The Strangers and Brothers Novels
    An emotional gulf forms between a young Jewish barrister and his father in a "wise, beautifully controlled and deeply moving novel" set in prewar England ( The New York Times Book Review).The scion of a wealthy Anglo-Jewish family, Charles March, is expected to fulfill the ambitions his father has for him. The young man, a friend of Lewis Eliot, shows great promise as a barrister. But an abrupt ... Read more

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