Společenskokritický román, v němž se na pozadí hospodářských a vnitropolitických sporů současné Anglie řeší vleklá soudní pře v složité dědické záležitosti, přičemž situace je zvažována očima tří starých pánů, pohledem historika, politika a přírodovědce.
C. P. Snow Knihy
15. október 1905 – 1. júl 1980
C. P. Snow bol britský spisovateľ a vedecký pracovník, ktorého dielo sa často zaoberalo stretom medzi dvoma kultúrami: humanitnými viedami a vedou. Preslávil sa najmä svojimi románmi, ktoré skúmajú morálne dilemy a spoločenské fungovanie vo svete vzdelanej elity. Sám s obľubou poukazoval na neschopnosť vtedajšej spoločnosti pochopiť vzájomné prepojenie vedeckého a literárneho myslenia. Jeho próza je charakteristická analytickým pohľadom na ľudské motivácie a spoločenské štruktúry, čo čitateľom ponúka hlboký vhľad do zložitosti intelektuálneho a politického života.
In Their Wisdom
- 334 stránok
- 12 hodin čítania
Economic storm clouds gather as bad political weather is forecast for the nation. Three elderly peers look on from the sidelines of the House of Lords and wonder if it will mean the end of a certain way of life. Against this background is set a court struggle over a disputed will that escalates into an almighty battle.
UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European Series: 44 Hungarian Short Stories
- 733 stránok
- 26 hodin čítania
A collection of traditional short stories translated from Hungarian to English.
The Search
- 318 stránok
- 12 hodin čítania
This story told in the first person starts with a child’s interest in the night sky. A telescope starts a lifetime’s interest in science. The narrator goes up to King’s College, London to study. As a fellow at Cambridge he embarks on love affairs and searches for love at the same time as career success. Finally, contentment in love exhausts his passion for research.
The Light and the Dark is the fourth in time sequence of narrative (although published as the second of the series) in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. The story is set in Cambridge, but the plot also moves to Monte Carlo, Berlin and Switzerland. Lewis Eliot narrates the career of a childhood friend. Roy Calvert is a brilliant but controversial linguist who is about to be elected to a fellowship.
The Sleep of Reason
- 438 stránok
- 16 hodin čítania
The penultimate novel in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series takes Goya's theme of monsters that appear in our sleep. The sleep of reason here is embodied in the ghastly murders of children that involve torture and sadism.
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.
