(1951), a compelling account of the struggle to elect a new Master of a Cambridge college, is probably C. P. Snow’s best-known and most critically esteemed novel. It was the fourth book to be published in his “Strangers and Brothers” series and he placed it fifth when he rearranged the sequence for the 1972 omnibus edition. Within the series, it is the second of a “Cambridge” trilogy which starts with
The Light and the Dark(1947) and ends with
The Affair(1960).
The Masterspartly overlaps with
The Light and the Dark, which covers the period 1934-43, but it is much more concentrated in terms of time, place and action, and its cast of characters is more exclusive. It spans one year, 1937, and confines itself wholly to Cambridge and mainly to key sites within a…
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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "The Masters". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 March 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=204, accessed 26 November 2024.]
