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Author: C. P. Snow
First Published: 1960
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: 1953-1954
Setting: London and Cambridge
Principal Characters: Lewis Eliot, Margaret, Donald Howard, Laura Howard, Martin Eliot, Ronald Edmund (Alec) Nightingale, Tom Orbell, Julian Skeffington, Maurice Harvey Lawrence Gay, Francis Ernest Getliffe, Arthur Brown, Redvers Thomas Arbuthnot Crawford, Paul Jago, G. S. Clarke, G. H. Winslow
Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
Subjects: Family or family life, Tradition, Power, personal or social, Communism or communists, Class consciousness, 1930’s, Upper classes, London, Government, Wealth
Locales: England

C. P. Snow’s STRANGERS AND BROTHERS sequence tells the traditional story of a young man’s rise in the world and his concurrent education in the ways of that world. Snow follows Lewis Eliot, the hero and narrator of the series, from working class origins to a place in the Establishment. In THE AFFAIR, Eliot has gained this position, and his special status as narrator of the novel and the fact that he came into the Establishment from the outside give the reader a special perspective on the workings of the men of power with whom Eliot associates. This perspective is...

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