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C. P. Snow was born on October 15, 1905 in Leicester, England. He graduated from Leicester University and received a doctorate in physics at the University of Cambridge. After working at Cambridge in molecular physics for about 20 years, he became a university administrator. During World War II, he mehr anzeigen was a scientific adviser to the British government. He was knighted in 1957 and created a Baron in the life peerage in 1964. He wrote an 11-volume novel sequence collectively called Strangers and Brothers, which was published between 1940 and 1970. His other works of fiction include Death Under Sail, In Their Wisdom, and A Coat of Varnish. He also wrote several non-fiction works including The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Public Affairs, Trollope: His Life and Art, and The Realists: Eight Portraits. He died on July 1, 1980 at the age of 74. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von C.P. Snow

The Masters (1951) 549 Exemplare
C. P. Snow: Korridore der Macht (1964) 379 Exemplare
The Affair (1960) 329 Exemplare
The New Men (1954) 321 Exemplare
Time of Hope (1949) 231 Exemplare
The Sleep of Reason (1968) 214 Exemplare
Science and government (1961) 205 Exemplare
George Passant (1940) 202 Exemplare
The Conscience of the Rich (1958) 200 Exemplare
Mord unterm Segel. (1932) 183 Exemplare
The Light and the Dark (1947) 180 Exemplare
A Coat of Varnish (1979) 171 Exemplare
Last Things (1970) 169 Exemplare
Homecomings (1956) 165 Exemplare
Variety of Men (1672) 140 Exemplare
The Search (1934) 131 Exemplare
In Their Wisdom (1709) 123 Exemplare
Trollope, his life and art (1975) 84 Exemplare
The Physicists (1981) 73 Exemplare
The Malcontents (1972) 73 Exemplare
The Realists (1713) 53 Exemplare
Strangers and Brothers (Set) (1940) 28 Exemplare
Public affairs (1971) 19 Exemplare
The state of siege (1969) 9 Exemplare
Stories from Modern Russia (1961) — Herausgeber — 4 Exemplare
Einstein 2 Exemplare
ENSAYOS CIENTIFICOS (1982) 2 Exemplare
Appendix to Science and Government (1962) — Autor — 1 Exemplar
The Masters {abridged} — Autor — 1 Exemplar
New Lives for Old 1 Exemplar
Richard Aldington 1 Exemplar
Thé Masters 1 Exemplar

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A Mathematician's Apology (Canto Book) (1940) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben1,372 Exemplare
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (2008) — Mitwirkender — 803 Exemplare
Energy (1963) — Consulting editor, einige Ausgaben191 Exemplare
The Vintage Book of Classic Crime (1993) — Mitwirkender — 33 Exemplare
A Book of Essays (1963) — Mitwirkender — 26 Exemplare
The affair,: A play, (1962) — Original novel — 17 Exemplare
Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections (2007) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare
Die zwei Kulturen (1967) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare

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Rechtmäßiger Name
Snow, Charles Percy
Andere Namen
Baron Snow of the City of Leicester
Geburtstag
1905-10-15
Todestag
1980-07-01
Geschlecht
male
Nationalität
Engeland, Groot-Brittannië
UK
Geburtsort
Leicester, England, UK
Sterbeort
London, England, UK
Wohnorte
London, England, UK
Ausbildung
University of Cambridge (Christ's College)
University of Leicester
Berufe
physicist
writer
civil servant
Beziehungen
Johnson, Pamela Hansford (spouse)
Snow, Philip (brother)
Preise und Auszeichnungen
CBE
Life Peerage, 1965
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1961)
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A very well-written novel exploring the vanities and insecurities of a group of senior tutors in their efforts to elect a new master of their college in Cambridge, England. This is #4 in an 11 book series tracing the life of one British man in the years around WWII. I've ordered the first book in the series and look forward to reading the entire lot!
 
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jemisonreads | 10 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 22, 2024 |
The bookstore mistakenly sent me this one instead of Janet Frame's A State of Siege; thought I might as well read it—but now I'm doubly disappointed I didn't get the right book.
 
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KatrinkaV | Oct 8, 2023 |
My mother had been recommending the first of the Strangers and Brothers books for sometime. Perhaps it was because if the strongvrevommrndation that I found it a little underwhelming. The story follows Lewis as he grows up, his early childhood, his father's business failure and on as his makes his way on the career ladder. Lewis is someone with whom one feels sympathy, he is poor but ambitious, working hard to rise above his working class origins at a time when this was much harder.

However, Lewis in love is not so engaging. He has the misfortune to love a woman who doesn't return his affections and instead becomes a dead weight, holding him back from a promising career. There are times when reading this when you want to shake him and shout "pull yourself together man", something his friends continually advise but Lewis is deaf.

It's an engaging read for the wonderful characters who are very real, even if it's a bit if a frustrating story.
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Cotswoldreader | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Jun 20, 2023 |
1959 is the year in which this text was written (or actually the corresponding speech given). It now sounds not only as an anticipation of a "third culture" that we might (maybe) recognize in the diffusion of new medias. It's also a brilliant, euro-centric view on our educational situation. Plus, it gives an interesting view of industrial revolution consequences.
 
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d.v. | 14 weitere Rezensionen | May 16, 2023 |

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