C.P. Snow's «Strangers and Brothers» as Mid-Twentieth-Century History

By: Lewis, Terrance L.

Book Overview

This book studies C.P. Snow's eleven-volume series of novels (Strangers and Brothers) as documents detailing the social and political life of mid-twentieth-century Britain, and points out the uses for the novels in the academic study of that time period. Both Snow and his central character, Lewis S. Eliot, started from unremarkable origins in terms of their mutual background in the lower reaches of the middle class, their dreams of success...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433106620
• ISBN13: 9781433106620
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"