Strangers And Brothers: Volume Three; Corridors Of Power (1955-59), The Sleep Of Reason (1963-64), Last Things (1964-68)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Two tears at back of jacket - otherwise still structural. Pages bright and clean.
The third and final volume of C. P. Snow's monumental Strangers and Brothers sequence brings together three late novels — Corridors of Power, The Sleep of Reason, and Last Things — completing one of the twentieth century's most ambitious fictional chronicles of British public and private life. Corridors of Power immerses readers in the highest levels of Westminster politics, following Lewis Eliot as he witnesses a minister's doomed campaign to shift nuclear policy, capturing with cool precision the machinery of influence, compromise, and ambition that governs those at the summit of power. The Sleep of Reason shifts to darker, more disturbing terrain, drawing on the real-life Moors Murders case to present a harrowing meditation on evil, moral responsibility, and the limits of rationalist humanism. The sequence concludes with Last Things, a deeply personal novel in which Eliot confronts illness, mortality, and the generational tensions of the late 1960s, bringing his long life's journey to a reflective and emotionally resonant close. Taken together, these three novels illustrate Snow's commanding gift for rendering the intersection of the personal and the political, written in his characteristically measured, authoritative prose that rewards readers who prize intelligence and moral seriousness in fiction.
Author: C. P. Snow
Format: Hardback
Published: 1972, Macmillan
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Two tears at back of jacket - otherwise still structural. Pages bright and clean.
The third and final volume of C. P. Snow's monumental Strangers and Brothers sequence brings together three late novels — Corridors of Power, The Sleep of Reason, and Last Things — completing one of the twentieth century's most ambitious fictional chronicles of British public and private life. Corridors of Power immerses readers in the highest levels of Westminster politics, following Lewis Eliot as he witnesses a minister's doomed campaign to shift nuclear policy, capturing with cool precision the machinery of influence, compromise, and ambition that governs those at the summit of power. The Sleep of Reason shifts to darker, more disturbing terrain, drawing on the real-life Moors Murders case to present a harrowing meditation on evil, moral responsibility, and the limits of rationalist humanism. The sequence concludes with Last Things, a deeply personal novel in which Eliot confronts illness, mortality, and the generational tensions of the late 1960s, bringing his long life's journey to a reflective and emotionally resonant close. Taken together, these three novels illustrate Snow's commanding gift for rendering the intersection of the personal and the political, written in his characteristically measured, authoritative prose that rewards readers who prize intelligence and moral seriousness in fiction.