Strangers and Brothers

Strangers and Brothers
AuthorC. P. Snow
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
PublisherMacmillan Publishers
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)

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.

Plot

All eleven novels in the series are narrated by the character Lewis Eliot. The series follows his life and career from humble beginnings in an English provincial town, to reasonably successful London lawyer, to Cambridge don, to wartime service in Whitehall, to senior civil servant and finally retirement.

The New Men deals with the scientific community's involvement in (and reaction to) the development and deployment of nuclear weapons during the Second World War. The Conscience of the Rich concerns a wealthy, Anglo-Jewish merchant-banking family. Time of Hope and George Passant depict the price paid by clever, poor young men to escape their provincial origins.

Snow analyses the professional world, scrutinising microscopic shifts of power within the enclosed settings of a Cambridge college, a Whitehall ministry, a law firm. For example, in the novels set in the Cambridge college (a thinly veiled Christ's), a small, disparate group of men is typically required to reach a collective decision on an important subject. In The Masters, the dozen or so college members elect a new head (the Master) by majority vote. In The Affair, a small group of dons sets out to correct a possible injustice: they must convince the rest of the college to re-open an investigation into scientific fraud. In both novels, the characters strongly resist letting in the external world, whether it be the press, public opinion, the college Visitor, or outside experts.

Narrative order

The narrative order of the books differs from their publication order.

Order Title Story timeline Published In order of publication
1 Time of Hope 1914–1933 1949 3
2 George Passant (first called Strangers and Brothers) 1925–1933 1940 1
3 The Conscience of the Rich 1927–1936 1958 7
4 The Light and the Dark 1935–1943 1947 2
5 The Masters 1937 1951 4
6 The New Men 1939–1946 1954 5
7 Homecomings 1938–1950 1956 6
8 The Affair 1953–1954 1960 8
9 Corridors of Power 1955–1958 1964 9
10 The Sleep of Reason 1963–1964 1968 10
11 Last Things 1964–1968 1970 11

Adaptations

Main article: Strangers and Brothers (TV series)

The books were adapted by the BBC into a 13-episode television series, which began airing in January 1984. The series starred Shaughan Seymour as Lewis, Sheila Ruskin as his mentally troubled first wife Sheila and Cherie Lunghi as his second wife Margaret. Other actors who were cast for the series include Anthony Hopkins, Nigel Havers, Peter Sallis and Tom Wilkinson. The series has been released on DVD in the Region 1 and 2 formats.

The BBC later adapted the books as a 10-episode Radio 4 Classic Serial, first broadcast in 2003, which starred Adam Godley (ep.1-5) then David Haig (ep.6-10) as Lewis, Anastasia Hille as Sheila and Juliet Aubrey as Margaret.

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