The Affair
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
In the cloistered world of a Cambridge college, a scandal threatens to unravel the carefully maintained fabric of academic life — The Affair by C. P. Snow is a gripping tale of justice, loyalty, and institutional power. When a disgraced and recently deceased scientist is accused of research fraud, a small group of Fellows must determine whether the verdict against him was just or a profound miscarriage of justice, all while navigating the treacherous currents of personal allegiance, political ideology, and collegiate self-interest. Part of Snow's celebrated Strangers and Brothers sequence, this novel illustrates his masterful command of the social novel tradition, drawing sharp, unsentimental portraits of men in positions of power and the moral compromises they make. Snow's prose is precise and restrained, building tension not through melodrama but through the quiet accumulation of dialogue, committee meetings, and institutional manoeuvre — a technique that earned him comparison to Trollope. A penetrating study of how institutions protect themselves at the expense of truth, The Affair leaves the reader asking a deeply unsettling question: when the system is both judge and defendant, can justice ever truly prevail?
Author: C. P. Snow
Format: Hardback
Published: 1960, Macmillan & Co Ltd / St Martin's Press
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
In the cloistered world of a Cambridge college, a scandal threatens to unravel the carefully maintained fabric of academic life — The Affair by C. P. Snow is a gripping tale of justice, loyalty, and institutional power. When a disgraced and recently deceased scientist is accused of research fraud, a small group of Fellows must determine whether the verdict against him was just or a profound miscarriage of justice, all while navigating the treacherous currents of personal allegiance, political ideology, and collegiate self-interest. Part of Snow's celebrated Strangers and Brothers sequence, this novel illustrates his masterful command of the social novel tradition, drawing sharp, unsentimental portraits of men in positions of power and the moral compromises they make. Snow's prose is precise and restrained, building tension not through melodrama but through the quiet accumulation of dialogue, committee meetings, and institutional manoeuvre — a technique that earned him comparison to Trollope. A penetrating study of how institutions protect themselves at the expense of truth, The Affair leaves the reader asking a deeply unsettling question: when the system is both judge and defendant, can justice ever truly prevail?