Strangers and Brothers is a series of novels by C. P. Snow, published between 1940 and 1970. They deal with – among other things – questions of political and personal integrity, and the mechanics of exercising power. All eleven novels in the series are narrated by the character Lewis Eliot. The series follows his life and career from humble beginnings in an English provincial town, to reasonably successful London lawyer, to Cambridge don, to wartime service in Whitehall, to senior civil servant and finally retirement. The New Men deals with the scientific community's involvement in the development and deployment of nuclear weapons during the Second World War. Conscience of the Rich concerns a wealthy, Anglo-Jewish merchant-banking family. Time of Hope and George Passant depict the price paid by clever, poor young men to escape their provincial origins. Snow analyses the professional world, scrutinising microscopic shifts of power within the enclosed settings of a Cambridge college, a Whitehall ministry, a law firm. Snow's novelistic world resembles the "classical" detective story, which needs to exclude as many variables as possible from the problem. Snow's fiction similarly contains his characters in the smallest possible area of operation, with no appeal to outside. Wikipedia [ - ]

Strangers and Brothers is a series of novels by C. P. Snow, published between 1940 and 1970... [ + ]