The Conscience Of The Rich
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Light foxing on block. Binding tight, pages clean.
A landmark work of twentieth-century British fiction, The Conscience of the Rich is the fifth installment in C. P. Snow's celebrated eleven-volume sequence Strangers and Brothers, chronicling the inner life of Charles March, a brilliant young man born into one of London's most prominent Anglo-Jewish families. The novel traces Charles's agonizing rebellion against the weight of dynastic expectation as he abandons a promising legal career to pursue medicine, forcing a painful reckoning between personal freedom and familial duty. Snow renders the March family's world with precise, unsentimental authority, illustrating how wealth and privilege can become a gilded cage, and how the conscience of an individual is shaped — and sometimes crushed — by the demands of class and tradition. The narrative builds to a quietly devastating climax involving political scandal, loyalty, and betrayal, revealing that the most consequential battles are often fought not in public arenas but within the walls of a family home. Written in Snow's characteristically measured and psychologically astute prose, the novel stands as a penetrating study of moral responsibility, identity, and the cost of integrity.
Author: C. P. Snow
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, Macmillan & Co Ltd
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Light foxing on block. Binding tight, pages clean.
A landmark work of twentieth-century British fiction, The Conscience of the Rich is the fifth installment in C. P. Snow's celebrated eleven-volume sequence Strangers and Brothers, chronicling the inner life of Charles March, a brilliant young man born into one of London's most prominent Anglo-Jewish families. The novel traces Charles's agonizing rebellion against the weight of dynastic expectation as he abandons a promising legal career to pursue medicine, forcing a painful reckoning between personal freedom and familial duty. Snow renders the March family's world with precise, unsentimental authority, illustrating how wealth and privilege can become a gilded cage, and how the conscience of an individual is shaped — and sometimes crushed — by the demands of class and tradition. The narrative builds to a quietly devastating climax involving political scandal, loyalty, and betrayal, revealing that the most consequential battles are often fought not in public arenas but within the walls of a family home. Written in Snow's characteristically measured and psychologically astute prose, the novel stands as a penetrating study of moral responsibility, identity, and the cost of integrity.