Last Things
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
The final curtain falls on one of twentieth-century British fiction's most ambitious sagas as Last Things brings C.P. Snow's eleven-volume Strangers and Brothers sequence to its masterful conclusion. Lewis Eliot, Snow's enduring narrator and alter ego, confronts his own mortality following a near-fatal illness, while simultaneously navigating the turbulent social and political upheavals of the late 1960s — from student rebellions to shifting corridors of power — in a world that has irrevocably changed around him. Snow, celebrated for his singular ability to chronicle the inner workings of British institutional life with unflinching clarity, here turns his cool, analytical gaze inward, weighing the personal cost of ambition, loyalty, and compromise against the backdrop of a lifetime's accumulated experience. The novel stands as both a meditation on ageing and legacy and a definitive portrait of mid-century English society, illustrating how private conscience and public duty are forever entwined. For readers who have followed Lewis Eliot's journey from its origins, Last Things offers a deeply satisfying — and quietly devastating — reckoning with all that remains when a life of consequence draws to its close.
Author: C.P. Snow
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, Macmillan
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
The final curtain falls on one of twentieth-century British fiction's most ambitious sagas as Last Things brings C.P. Snow's eleven-volume Strangers and Brothers sequence to its masterful conclusion. Lewis Eliot, Snow's enduring narrator and alter ego, confronts his own mortality following a near-fatal illness, while simultaneously navigating the turbulent social and political upheavals of the late 1960s — from student rebellions to shifting corridors of power — in a world that has irrevocably changed around him. Snow, celebrated for his singular ability to chronicle the inner workings of British institutional life with unflinching clarity, here turns his cool, analytical gaze inward, weighing the personal cost of ambition, loyalty, and compromise against the backdrop of a lifetime's accumulated experience. The novel stands as both a meditation on ageing and legacy and a definitive portrait of mid-century English society, illustrating how private conscience and public duty are forever entwined. For readers who have followed Lewis Eliot's journey from its origins, Last Things offers a deeply satisfying — and quietly devastating — reckoning with all that remains when a life of consequence draws to its close.