Charles percy snow, baron snow, cbe 15 october 1905 1 july 1980 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 masters, a compelling account of the struggle to elect a new master of a cambridge college, is snow s bestknown and most critically esteemed novel. It is the fourth novel in the eleven novel sequence the comprises c. Multiplicity of themes in cp snows novels the masters and. The masters examines the personal and university politics that shape this decision through the narrative style of c. The year 2005 is the centenary of the birth and the 25th anniversary of the death of c. The masters not only portrays a power structure in microcosm but is. Although there are many themes under the lines of the two novels, the study. Synopsis winner of 1954 james tait black memorial prize for fiction. Winner of 1954 james tait black memorial prize for fiction. Snow s masterpiece, this lucid and compelling story of the contest for the mastership of a cambridge college is the fifth novel in c. In one of his most celebrated novels, the masters, an account of the election of a. Go to the editions section to read or download ebooks. This captures a brainy professorial world through heavy reliance on complex and conditional dialogue, acute but unspoken observations, and highly abstract character analysis.
Narrated by lewis eliot, the story tells of the election of a new master to replace the old master who, as the novel opens, lays dying. Within the strangers and brothers series, it is the second of a cambridge trilogy which starts with the light and the dark and ends with the affair. It involves the election of a new master at narrator lewis eliots unnamed cambridge college, which resembles christs college where snow was a fellow. Snow is actually the fifth book in an eleven book series, strangers and brothers, chronicling life in cambridge and other centers of power in twentiethcentury britain. Set between 1939 and 1946, it follows the lives and loves of men. The fourth in the strangers and brothers series begins. The fourth in the strangers and brothers series begins with the dying master of a cambridge college. The masters, the new men, homecomings and the affair. Snow, ebook format, from the dymocks online bookstore. Corridors of power written by the british novelist c.
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