C. P. Snow
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Charles Percy Snow CBE (15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980), who was raised to the peerage as Baron Snow, of the City of Leicester, was an English chemist and novelist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government. He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as "Strangers and Brothers", and for "The Two Cultures", a 1959 lecture in which he laments the gulf between scientists and "literary intellectuals".
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Works
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Fiction
- Strangers and Brothers series
- George Passant (first published as Strangers and Brothers), 1940
- The Light and the Dark, 1947
- Time of Hope, 1949
- The Masters, 1951
- The New Men, 1954
- Homecomings, 1956
- The Conscience of the Rich, 1958
- The Affair, 1959
- Corridors of Power, 1963
- The Sleep of Reason, 1968
- Last Things, 1970
- Other fiction
- Death Under Sail, 1932
- New Lives for Old, 1933
- The Search, 1934
- The Malcontents, 1972
- In Their Wisdom, 1974, shortlisted for the Booker Prize
- A Coat of Varnish, 1979
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Non-fiction
- The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, 1959
- Science and Government, 1961
- The Two Cultures and a Second Look, 1963
- Variety of men, 1967
- The State of Siege, 1968
- Public Affairs, 1971
- Trollope: His Life and Art, 1975
- The Realists, 1978
- The Physicists, 1981
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