C.P. Snow

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Nicolas Tredell

   Pages 1-2

3. A Multifarious Life

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   Pages 3-30

4. Early Novels: Death under Sail, New Lives for Old and The Search

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   Pages 31-53

5. Strangers and Brothers (1): Time of Hope, George Passant, The Conscience of the Rich and The Light and the Dark

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   Pages 54-78

6. Strangers and Brothers (2): The Masters, The New Men, Homecomings and The Affair

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   Pages 79-107

7. Strangers and Brothers (3): Corridors of Power, The Sleep of Reason and Last Things

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   Pages 108-128

8. Late Novels: The Malcontents, In Their Wisdom and A Coat of Varnish

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   Pages 129-143

9. Non-Fiction: Science, Culture and Government — The Two Cultures and Science and Government

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   Pages 144-163

10. Non-Fiction: Biography, Literature and Science — Variety of Men, Trollope, The Realists and The Physicists

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    Pages 164-182

11. Conclusion

    • Nicolas Tredell

    Pages 183-199

12. Back Matter

    Pages 200-217

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Novelist and cultural commentator C.P. Snow was a large and controversial presence in his lifetime but his work has been largely neglected since his death in 1980. This is the first 21st-century book to offer a clear, informed and sympathetic survey of all his novels and major non-fiction books and to affirm their importance for the world today.

• culture
• English literature
• fiction
• novel
• British and Irish Literature

'The strengths of this work are its completeness in dealing with Snow's work and the research done on the original reviews of the fiction. Accessible across academic disciplines, this could become the general introduction to Snow studies for the next academic generation.' - Terrance L. Lewis, Associate Professor, History/Social Sciences, Winston-Salem State University, USA

Nicolas Tredell is a freelance writer and formerly taught Literature, Film, Drama and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the series editor of Palgrave Macmillan's Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism series.

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