The Strangers and Brothers Omnibus v 2 Author:C. P. Snow Four novels in one! — *The Masters (1937) — *The New Men (1939-47) — *Homecomings (1938-51) — *The Affair (1953-54) — Opening with C.P. Snow's award-winning novel The Masters, this second volume of Strangers & Brothers spans Lewis Eliot's life from the thirties to the fifties at Cambridge, and in London during the Second World War. Eliot's university... more » career, with its brilliantly penetrating account of Cambridge life, college politics and intrigues, is interrupted in the war years. Sent to London, he becomes caught up in the world of scientists, politicians and spies at work on the H-bomb--the most terrifying research of our time.
"Nothing less than the creation of a composite portrait, in the lives of Eliot and his friends, of twentieth-century Western man."