The Masters Author:C. P. Snow *The Masters* is the best-known of C. P. Snow's still uncompleted series of self-contained novels on English life during the past half century. Collectively entitled *Strangers and Brothers,* the series has been call the most ambitious project in contemporary British literature, and its author has been described by *The New Yorker* as possessing... more » "the astonishing ability... so rare in modern fiction" to combine intelligence and imagination while in the act of telling a story. With honest and rare sensitivity Mr. Snow has described toe progress of the narrator Lewis Eliot, from his lower-class provincial origins to a position of eminence, but the story of Eliot's rise also constitutes a record of the radical transformation that have taken place within English society in the 20th century. *The Masters,* which subtly studies the nature of politics and power through a fascinating account of the election of a Master at a Cambridge University college, is generally considered Snow's most distinguished and most characteristic work.« less