Strangers and Brothers Author:C. P. Snow "Strangers and Brothers" is a sequence of novels comprising the life story of Lewis Eliot and alternating between his direct and observed experience. The settings are principally an English provincial town, London, and Cambridge. — STRANGERS AND BROTHERS (set in the time of 1925-1933), the first novel in the sequence, is primarily the story of Ge... more »orge Passant, a brilliant young lawyer in a provincial town. An idealist and a man of great generosity and courage, a crucial influence on a wide circle of young proteges, Passant has a tragic flaw of character that, in the end, leads to the wreckage of his own high hopes.« less