Winner of 1954 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. Widely
regarded as C. P. Snow's masterpiece, this lucid and compelling
story of the contest for the Mastership of a Cambridge college is
the fifth novel in C. P. Snow's magnificent Strangers and Brothers
sequence. As the old Master slowly dies of cancer, his colleagues
and peers jostle for power. Two candidates come to the foreground;
Paul Jago - warm and sympathetic, but given to extravagant moods
and hindered by an unsuitable wife - and Crawford, a shrewd,
cautious and reliable man who lacks any of Jago's human gifts. For
Lewis Eliot, through whose eyes the narrative unfurls, the choice
is clear, but politics and egos soon cloud the debate and the
College is torn in two. Depicting power in a confined setting with
clarity and humanity, The Masters remains unsurpassed in its quiet,
authoritative insight into the politics of academia. A meticulous
study of the public issues and private problems of post-war
Britain, C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers sequence is a towering
achievement that stands alongside Anthony Powell's A Dance to the
Music of Time as one of the great romans-fleuves of the twentieth
century.
General
Imprint: |
Macmillan Bello
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Strangers and Brothers |
Release date: |
February 2018 |
Authors: |
C.P. Snow
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Dimensions: |
203 x 133 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
466 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5098-6425-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
1-5098-6425-3 |
Barcode: |
9781509864256 |
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