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The Two Cultures
Av C. P. Snow
Häftad, 2012
267 kr
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The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or humanities on one hand and the sciences on the other - has a long history. But it was C. P. Snow's Rede lecture of 1959 that brought it to prominence and began …
Time of Hope
Av C. P. Snow
Häftad, 2018
190 kr
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The life of Lewis Eliot – documented across eleven novels with C. P. Snow’s distinctive blend of precision and compassion – begins in Time of Hope.The novel opens in the summer of 1914 when nine-year-old Lewis hears the news of his father’s bankruptcy, and closes in 1933, when, although hindered in …
Time of Hope
Av C. P. Snow
E-bok, 2018
71 kr
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The life of Lewis Eliot – documented across eleven novels with C. P. Snow’s distinctive blend of precision and compassion – begins in Time of Hope. The novel opens in the summer of 1914 when nine-year-old Lewis hears the news of his father’s bankruptcy, and closes in 1933, when, although hindered …
George Passant
Av C. P. Snow
Häftad, 2018
166 kr
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Lewis Eliot, the diffident protagonist of the Strangers and Brothers sequence, retreats to the background in this absorbing study of his mentor, George Passant, a charismatic solicitor’s clerk. In the years of economic depression between the wars, George – an idealistic radical bursting with …
George Passant
Av C. P. Snow
E-bok, 2018
71 kr
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Lewis Eliot, the diffident protagonist of the Strangers and Brothers sequence, retreats to the background in this absorbing study of his mentor, George Passant, a charismatic solicitor’s clerk. In the years of economic depression between the wars, George – an idealistic radical bursting with …
Conscience of the Rich
Av C. P. Snow
E-bok, 2018
71 kr
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In this, the quietly powerful third novel in C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers sequence, Lewis Eliot narrates the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking dynasties between the two World Wars. Drawn into the fold of one such family by his friendship with the son and heir, Charles March, Lewis …
Light and the Dark
Av C. P. Snow
E-bok, 2018
71 kr
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The stability and resilience of Lewis Eliot is sharply contrasted with the melancholia of his brilliant colleague, Roy Calvert, in the fourth novel of C. P. Snow’s masterful Strangers and Brothers sequence. Opening in Cambridge in 1935 and ending in London in 1943, all of Roy’s brief and dazzling …
Masters
Av C. P. Snow
Häftad, 2018
166 kr
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Winner of 1954 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.Widely regarded as C. P. Snow’s masterpiece, this lucid and compelling story of the contest for the Mastership of a Cambridge college is the fifth novel in C. P. Snow’s magnificent Strangers and Brothers sequence.As the old Master slowly …
Masters
Av C. P. Snow
E-bok, 2018
71 kr
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Winner of 1954 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. Widely regarded as C. P. Snow’s masterpiece, this lucid and compelling story of the contest for the Mastership of a Cambridge college is the fifth novel in C. P. Snow’s magnificent Strangers and Brothers sequence. As the old Master slowly …
New Men
Av C. P. Snow
E-bok, 2018
71 kr
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Winner of 1954 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. As the Second World War draws to a close, Lewis Eliot becomes entangled in the ethics and practicalities of nuclear warfare, in the sixth novel of C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers sequence. His scientist brother, Martin, and brilliant …
Homecomings
Av C. P. Snow
E-bok, 2018
71 kr
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The personal life of Lewis Eliot, the central figure and narrator of C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers , takes centre stage in this moving account of his wartime years. The suicide of Lewis’s desperately vulnerable wife, Sheila, ends a marriage fraught with difficulty and pain and shakes his …
Affair
Av C. P. Snow
E-bok, 2018
71 kr
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The eighth novel in C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers sequence sees a return to the Cambridge college of The Masters , where an apparent miscarriage of justice once again ranges the fellows against one another. The unpopular Dr Donald Howard is dismissed for academic fraud, much to the relief of …
Corridors of Power
Av C. P. Snow
E-bok, 2018
71 kr
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Lewis Eliot walks the echoing corridors of Whitehall observing political intrigues and shifting alliances in this exceptional portrait of the heart of the British government during the Suez Crisis. At its centre is Roger Quaife, an ambitious MP determined to denuclearize Britain. His weapons: …
Sleep of Reason
Av C. P. Snow
E-bok, 2018
69 kr
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Sir Lewis Eliot returns to his hometown in the tenth, and penultimate, novel in the Strangers and Brothers sequence. Although now mature in the world of affairs and in possession of a knighthood, the older Lewis has much to contend with – his eyesight is failing and a risky operation is on the …
Last Things
Av C. P. Snow
E-bok, 2018
71 kr
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The world of Sir Lewis Eliot draws to a close in Last Things , the eleventh and final novel in C. P. Snow’s decade-spanning Strangers and Brothers sequence. After his heart stops briefly on the operating table, Sir Lewis is compelled to reflect on his life, to pass judgement on his hopes and …
Zeit der Hoffnung
Roman
Av C. P. Snow
E-bok, 2026
280 kr
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Nach Anthony Powells »Ein Tanz zur Musik der Zeit« und Simon Ravens »Almosen fürs Vergessen« erscheint endlich auch der dritte große englische Romanzyklus aus dem 20. Jahrhundert erstmals vollständig in deutscher Übersetzung: Die elfbändige Reihe »Strangers and Brothers«, im Original zwischen 1940 …
George Passant
Roman
Av C. P. Snow
E-bok, 2026
280 kr
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Nach Anthony Powells »Ein Tanz zur Musik der Zeit« und Simon Ravens »Almosen fürs Vergessen« erscheint endlich auch der dritte große englische Romanzyklus aus dem 20. Jahrhundert erstmals vollständig in deutscher Übersetzung: Die elfbändige Reihe »Strangers and Brothers«, im Original zwischen 1940 …
Les dues cultures
Av C. P. Snow
E-bok, 2020
45 kr
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Una reflexió essencial sobre el divorci entre la literatura i la ciència.Per primer cop en català, la importantíssima reflexió de l''escriptor Charles P. Snow sobre el divorci entre les "dues cultures", la ciència i els intel·lectuals de la literatura, segueix sent tan vigent com en 1959.Els …
