(1954) focuses on the British attempt in the Second World War to make an atomic bomb. In historical fact, some of the key events in this process occurred between 1945 and 1949, but Snow transfers them to the wartime period for dramatic effect (Halperin, 1982, 165).

was originally the fifth novel to be published in Snow's “Strangers and Brothers” series but Snow placed it sixth when he rearranged the sequence for the 1982 omnibus edition. It covers the years 1939-47, thus partly overlapping in time with the fourth novel in the series,

(1947), whose action runs from 1934-43, and the seventh,

(1956), which spans the period 1938-51. As throughout the series, the narrator is Lewis Eliot, and

marks a further stage in his…

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "The New Men". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 May 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=85, accessed 26 November 2024.]