찰스 퍼시 스노

두 문화는 영국의 과학자 겸 소설가 찰스 퍼시 스노우가 행한 영향력 있는 1959년 리드 강좌의 제목이다. 그 주제는 현대 사회의 두 문화 곧 과학과 인문학 사이의 의사소통 단절이 세계 문제를 해결하는 데 가장 큰 걸림돌이라는 것이었다. 스노우는 교육받은 과학자이면서 성공적인 소설가로서 그 문제의 거론에 알맞은 자격이 있었다. 그 강좌는 5월 7일 케임브리지 대학 본부 세니트 하우스에서 열렸고, 이내 《두 문화와 과학 혁명》으로 출판되었다. 그 강좌와 책은 스노우가 역시 "두 문화"라는 제목으로 1956년 10월 6일에 출판된 《뉴 스테이츠맨》 잡지에 실은 논문을 …

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 novel is set in 1937, with the growing threat from Nazi Germany as the backdrop. The …

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. Corridors is concerned with the attempts of an English MP to influence the country's …

Time of Hope is the first chronological entry in C. P. Snow's series of novels Strangers and Brothers, and the third to be published. It depicts the beginning of Lewis Eliot's life, with a childhood in poverty in a small English town at the beginning of the 20th Century. Lewis Eliot is walking home in the summer of …

The Light and the Dark is the fourth novel in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers series. Set in England in the lead-up to and during World War II, it portrays Lewis Eliot's friendship with the gifted scholar and remarkable individual Roy Calvert, and Calvert's inner turmoil and quest for meaning in life. Calvert was …

The penultimate novel in the Strangers and Brothers series takes Goya’s theme of monsters that appear in our sleep. The sleep of reason here is embodied in the ghastly murders of children that involve torture and sadism.

The Conscience of the Rich is the seventh published of C. P. Snow's series of novels Strangers and Brothers, but the third according to the internal chronology. It details the lives of Charles, Katherine and their father, Leonard March, a wealthy Jewish family. Lewis Eliot narrates the story of the conflicting …