ls An Avenue of Stone (1947), The Survival of the Fittest (1968), The Good Listener (1975), satirical novels The Unspeakable Skipton (1959), Cork Street, Next to the Hatter < span align = "justify"> s (1965) .. P. Snow began writing fiction in the thirties. His first novels were Death Under the Sail (1932) and The Search (1934). Six years later, in 1940, his novel Strangers and Brothers appeared. This novel was the opening book in a long sequence of novels written in the forties, fifties and sixties. Later Strangers and Brothers became the general title of the cycle.second novel entitled The Light and the Dark, was published in 1947. It was succeeded by Time of Hope (1949), The Masters (1951), The New Men (1954), Homecomings (1956), The Conscience of the Rich (1959) and The Affair (1960). In the 1960s Corridors of Power (1964) and The Sleep of Reason were added to the previous novels. The next novel, entitled Last Things was published in 1970.general CP Snow, true to critical realism, shows the panorama of English society in the prewar, war and post-war, years. In Strangers and Brothers and Time of Hope one can see the middle class in an English provincial town, in The Light and the Dark - the aristocracy, in Corridors of Power - the upper English administration. In The Masters and The Affairs the novelist reveals a profound knowledge of university life. He is particularly receptive to the conflicts of the people belonging to different classes and social groups.Strangers and Brothers series of novels, record in the first person the experiences of a lawyer and government administrator named Lewis Eliot. These novels deal with his background, his struggles, his friends, his college at Cambridge, and the complicated society he lives in. The sequence of the novels is linked together through this autobiographical character. Sometimes he takes a direct part in the action, at other times he tells the story or comments on the events of the novel. Lewis Eliot, like Snow, was born in 1905. The author depicts his own experiences and his impressions of society from 1914 till the middle fifties. As a young man in Time of Hope Lewis falls deeply in love with a neurotic girl, Sheila. He courts her for years, and wins her confidence although he never wins her love. She falls in love with Hugh, a man as weak and uncertain as herself. In order to win Sheila, Lewis convinces Hugh that she is entirely mad and Hugh, always anxious to avoid complications, disappears and never sees her again. Deprived of the only man she could love, Sheila turns to Lewis in desperation and marries him. Lewis quite openly assumes the responsibility for her, yet, at the end of the novel, he begins to complain that his attention to Sheila has begun to ruin his career as a barrister.the novels that deal with the later life of Lewis, he frequently repeats that he has sacrificed his career for Sheila, acknowledging less and less as time goes on, his responsibility for her. Lewis Eliot is a lawyer, who belongs to the sphere of society as Snow himself. His views and standpoints are influenced by bourgeois society in which he was born. Thus Snow portrays his narrator as a love-sick young man, enterprising barrister, who is also a cool and intelligent government official and a compassionate family man with his second wife.and Brothers end with Lewis Eliot, who is trying to contrive a dramatic acquittal for his friend George Passant, on a charge of fraud. Though acquitted, George is never entirely redeemed by society. But he has had his moment of drama and remains a naive but noble man.these novels are full of trial scenes, startling revelations, and dramatic rehearsals which even Lewis Eliot s calm cannot tone down completely. s novels are most effective when they relay on a kind of nostalgic social history, generally, the best novels are those dealing with the early days in Lewis Eliot s career. These scenes are described with ease, fondness and are rich in details.of Power is a novel of the English top officials and statesmen of the fifties. The chief figure is a tough and ruthless English politician Roger Quaife, who wants to do something valuable with the power he has won. His effort to take Great Britain out of the nuclear arms race provides the centre of the story - a story of what men of action do, in success and in failure.main hero of The Affairs, Donald Howard, a young scientist whose reputation for being a Red is known to the reactionary administration of Cambridge University, is to be expelled on the pretext of having falsified a scientific document. people of different political views are involved in the conflict, and the novelist exposes their real motives covered by the mask of academic traditions. s novels in the cycle Th...
