{"product_id":"2026200018753-secondhand-the-light-and-the-dark","title":"The Light And The Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of Cambridge's glittering intellectual world stands Roy Calvert — a man of extraordinary brilliance cursed by a darkness no amount of academic triumph can extinguish. The Light and the Dark, the second novel in C. P. Snow's monumental eleven-volume sequence Strangers and Brothers, chronicles the tragic life of this gifted linguist through the eyes of his closest friend, Lewis Eliot, as Calvert seeks solace from his manic depression in scholarship, sensual pleasure, and ultimately, the seductive certainty of fascist ideology in the years leading up to World War II.\n\nSnow writes with the measured authority of a man who inhabited the corridors of power himself, rendering the Byzantine social rituals of Cambridge college life and establishment England with unflinching precision. The novel presents a profound meditation on the nature of joy and suffering, the limits of friendship, and the terrifying appeal of absolute belief to a tortured mind. A psychologically devastating portrait of a man undone by his own inner contradictions, it leaves the reader to wrestle with the question of whether brilliance and despair are, in the end, inseparable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50573347225819,"sku":"2026200018753-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/be941526-32fd-4eec-9a81-3cdc07313d01.png?v=1791168029","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200018753-secondhand-the-light-and-the-dark","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}