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The Affair (A strangers & brothers novel) (Paperback)

by C.P. Snow (Author)
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  • Paperback: 360 pages
  • Publisher: House of Stratus; New edition edition (8 Dec 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1842324276
  • ISBN-13: 978-1842324271
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 182,025 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In the eighth in the Strangers and Brothers series Donald Howard, a young science Fellow is charged with scientific fraud and dismissed from his college.This novel, which became a successful West End play, describes a miscarriage of justice in the same Cambridge college which served as a setting for The Masters.


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Charles Percy Snow (Baron Snow of Leicester) was educated as a chemist and physicist at the universities of Leicester and Cambridge. After scientific research he turned to administration and later held many important public posts. His novel sequence Strangers and Brothers spans the life of its narrator, Lewis Eliot, barrister - and took over 30 years to write.Snow describes the rarefied worlds of academia, Cambridge, the Jewish community and Westminster. He also wrote several critical works including a biography of Trollope.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic English fiction, set in Academia, 12 Jul 2001
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Like C.P.Snow's "The Masters" and "The Light and the Dark", this is a fine novel set in a fictional college in Cambridge University. This one, set in the 1950s, concerns a possible miscarriage of justice made when a research Fellow is expelled for allegedly fabricating scientific results in his Fellowship thesis. Lewis Eliot, Snow's quasi-autobiographical narrator, although no longer a fellow of the college, becomes involved into "The Affair", once he is convinced that a miscarriage of justice has taken place. The odious and unhelpful nature of the expelled fellow is, for some fellows, enough reason to be glad to be rid of him. Will justice prevail - or is Lewis Eliot plain wrong?

Don't expect great thrills and action, but you will be rewarded with a superb evocation of the politics (with a small "p") of a closed society, a covincing portait of an old English university college in years past, subtle twists of plot and a great understanding of human motivations make this a truly gripping read.

This book is probably best read after reading "The Masters" first - although it's not a sequel as such, you'll understand the characters and the college background much better

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