The Sleep Of Reason
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: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
In the grand tradition of the English novel, The Sleep of Reason chronicles the moral and psychological unraveling at the heart of a seemingly civilized society, drawing its chilling title from Goya's famous etching — a warning that when reason sleeps, monsters are born. Set against the backdrop of provincial English life in the 1960s, the novel follows Lewis Eliot, C. P. Snow's enduring alter ego, as he confronts a horrifying real-life murder case that forces him to reckon with the limits of humanism, justice, and human understanding. The case — inspired by the notorious Moors Murders — tears through the comfortable world of academia and public life, exposing the darkness that reason and progress have failed to extinguish. The penultimate installment in Snow's monumental eleven-volume Strangers and Brothers sequence, this work stands as one of the cycle's most sombre and philosophically charged entries, illustrating the author's characteristic blend of intimate character study and sweeping social observation. Snow writes with the cool, measured authority of a man who has inhabited the corridors of power and witnessed the contradictions of the educated class firsthand, lending the narrative an unsettling credibility. Readers drawn to questions of evil, culpability, and the fragility of moral order will find this a haunting and deeply rewarding work — one that lingers long after the final page is turned.
Author: C. P. Snow
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Macmillan
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
In the grand tradition of the English novel, The Sleep of Reason chronicles the moral and psychological unraveling at the heart of a seemingly civilized society, drawing its chilling title from Goya's famous etching — a warning that when reason sleeps, monsters are born. Set against the backdrop of provincial English life in the 1960s, the novel follows Lewis Eliot, C. P. Snow's enduring alter ego, as he confronts a horrifying real-life murder case that forces him to reckon with the limits of humanism, justice, and human understanding. The case — inspired by the notorious Moors Murders — tears through the comfortable world of academia and public life, exposing the darkness that reason and progress have failed to extinguish. The penultimate installment in Snow's monumental eleven-volume Strangers and Brothers sequence, this work stands as one of the cycle's most sombre and philosophically charged entries, illustrating the author's characteristic blend of intimate character study and sweeping social observation. Snow writes with the cool, measured authority of a man who has inhabited the corridors of power and witnessed the contradictions of the educated class firsthand, lending the narrative an unsettling credibility. Readers drawn to questions of evil, culpability, and the fragility of moral order will find this a haunting and deeply rewarding work — one that lingers long after the final page is turned.