Books by C. P. Snow

The prize-winning fifth book in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers sequence. Set in 1937, it follows the struggle for the mastership of a Cambridge college.

The second book in C. P. Snow's magnificent Strangers and Brothers sequence. Set between 1925 and 1933, it narrates the rise and fall of an idealistic solicitor's clerk in a small provincial town.

The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or humanities on one hand and the sciences on the other - has a long history. But it was C. P. Snow's Rede lecture of 1959 that brought it to prominence and began a public debate that is still raging in the media today. This fiftieth anniversary printing of The Two Cultures and its successor piece, A Second Look (in which Snow responded to the controversy four years later) features an introduction by Stefan Collini, charting the history and context of the debate, its implications and its afterlife. The importance of science and technology in policy run largely by non-scientists, the future for education and research, and the problem of fragmentation threatening hopes for a common culture are just some of the subjects discussed.