The New Men
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of mid-twentieth-century British fiction, The New Men is the seventh installment in C. P. Snow's celebrated Strangers and Brothers sequence, set against the tense and morally charged backdrop of Britain's wartime atomic weapons program. The novel chronicles the experiences of Lewis Eliot as he navigates the corridors of government science, watching a generation of brilliant physicists grapple with the profound ethical weight of the work they are doing. Snow masterfully illustrates the collision between scientific ambition and moral conscience, presenting characters who must reconcile personal loyalty, political ideology, and the terrifying implications of nuclear power. Written with Snow's characteristic cool precision and insider authority — drawn from his own career as a scientist and civil servant — the narrative argues that the men who build the future are never fully prepared for its consequences. Taut, intelligent, and deeply humane, it remains one of the most searching fictional examinations of science, power, and responsibility ever written.
Author: C. P. Snow
Format: Hardback
Published: 1954, Macmillan & Co Ltd
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of mid-twentieth-century British fiction, The New Men is the seventh installment in C. P. Snow's celebrated Strangers and Brothers sequence, set against the tense and morally charged backdrop of Britain's wartime atomic weapons program. The novel chronicles the experiences of Lewis Eliot as he navigates the corridors of government science, watching a generation of brilliant physicists grapple with the profound ethical weight of the work they are doing. Snow masterfully illustrates the collision between scientific ambition and moral conscience, presenting characters who must reconcile personal loyalty, political ideology, and the terrifying implications of nuclear power. Written with Snow's characteristic cool precision and insider authority — drawn from his own career as a scientist and civil servant — the narrative argues that the men who build the future are never fully prepared for its consequences. Taut, intelligent, and deeply humane, it remains one of the most searching fictional examinations of science, power, and responsibility ever written.