Time of Hope C. P. Snow

Name: Time of Hope By C. P. Snow
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Time of Hope by C. P. Snow

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SeriesStrangers and Brothers

Summary

The first of C. P. Snow's magnificent Strangers and Brothers sequence, set between 1914 and 1933, narrating Lewis Eliot's childhood and early days as a lawyer in London.

Time of Hope Summary

Time of Hope by C. P. Snow

The life of Lewis Eliot - documented across eleven novels with C. P. Snow's distinctive blend of precision and compassion - begins in Time of Hope.

The novel opens in the summer of 1914 when nine-year-old Lewis hears the news of his father's bankruptcy, and closes in 1933, when, although hindered in his promising career as a lawyer by the neuroses of his wife, he realises that he cannot bear to leave her. In the course of this ambitious but ultimately unremarkable man's early life rage the great questions of the age - questions of class, of gender, of ideology and of war - asked and answered with wisdom and tolerance.

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.

Time of Hope Reviews

Mr Snow has established himself, on his own chosen ground, in an eminent and conspicuous position among contemporary English novelists * New Statesman *
He has the solid worth of Trollope and Bennett at their best -- Arthur Calder-Marshall * Reynold's News *
Together, the sequence presents a vivid portrait of British academic, political and public life. Snow was that rare thing, a scientist and novelist. * Jeffrey Archer, Guardian *
Balzacian masterpieces of the age * Philip Hensher, Telegraph *
Through [the Strangers and Brothers sequence] as in no other work in our time we have explored the inner life of the new classless class that is the 20th century Establishment * New York Times *
A very considerable achievement ... It brings into the novel themes and locales never seen before (except perhaps in Trollope). * Anthony Burgess *

About C. P. Snow

C. P. Snow was born in Leicester in 1905 and educated at a secondary school. He started his career as a professional scientist, though writing was always his ultimate aim. He won a research scholarship to Cambridge and became a Fellow of his college in 1930. He continued his academic life there until the beginning of the Second World War, by which time he had already begun his masterwork - the eleven-volume Strangers and Brothers sequence, two of which (The Masters and The New Men) were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1954. His other novels include The Search, The Malcontents and In Their Wisdom, the last of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1974. Snow became a civil servant during the war and went on to become a Civil Service commissioner, for which he received a knighthood. He married a fellow novelist, Pamela Hansford Johnson, in 1950 and delivered his famous lecture, The Two Cultures, that same year. C. P. Snow died in 1980.

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GOR009060809

ISBN 13

9781509864140

ISBN 10

1509864148

Title

Time of Hope by C. P. Snow

Author

C. P. Snow

Series

Strangers and Brothers

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Year published

20180222

Number of pages

514

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