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Lord Snow of Leicester was born at 40 Richmond Road Leicester. This plaque is displayed opposite his birthplace. Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow (15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980 [1]) was an English novelist and physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government.
The Significance of C. P. Snow, published in The Spectator in 1962. The article attracted a great deal of negative correspondence in the magazine's letters pages. [8] In his 1963 book Snow appeared to revise his thinking and was more optimistic about the potential of a mediating third culture.
Strangers and Brothers is a series of novels by C. P. Snow, published between 1940 and 1970. They deal with – among other things – questions of political and personal integrity, and the mechanics of exercising power.
The Masters is the fifth novel in C. P. Snow's series Strangers and Brothers. It involves the election of a new Master at narrator Lewis Eliot's unnamed Cambridge College, which resembles Christ's College where Snow was a fellow. The 1951 novel's dedication is "In memory of G. H. Hardy", the Cambridge mathematician.
George Passant is the first published of C. P. Snow's series of novels Strangers and Brothers, but the second according to the internal chronology. It was first published under the name Strangers and Brothers. It was published in the United Kingdom in 1940 [1] and in the U.S. in 1960. [2]
Corridors of Power is the ninth book in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers series. Its title had become a household phrase referring to the centres of government and power after Snow coined it in his earlier novel, Homecomings. (A slightly rueful Foreword to Corridors of Power expresses the hope that he is at least entitled to use his own ...
The Light and the Dark is the fourth novel in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers series. [2] The book portrays narrator Lewis Eliot's friendship with Roy Calvert, and Calvert's inner turmoil and quest for meaning in life. Calvert was based on Snow's friend, Coptic scholar, Charles Allberry. [3] Their relationship is developed further in The ...
Charles E. Snow (1910–1967), American anthropologist Charles Wilbert Snow (1884–1977), American politician C. P. Snow (Charles Percy Snow, 1905–1980), English physicist and novelist