ISBN George Passant book English Paperback 444 pages

Lewis Eliot, the diffident protagonist of the Strangers and Brothers sequence, retreats to the background in this absorbing study of his mentor, George Passant, a charismatic solicitors clerk. In the years of economic depression between the wars, George an idealistic radical bursting with notions of creating the world anew gathers about him a group of young people who, restive and ambitious, trust him to emancipate them from the constraints of their provincial lives. But when his lofty aspirations become muddied with a need for money and desire for sexual freedom, his power over the group becomes a danger to them all.Politics, people and the rapidly changing social landscape of inter-war Britain are narrated with Snows trademark subtlety and precision in this fascinating analysis of a god with feet of clay. A meticulous study of the public issues and private problems of post-war Britain, C. P. Snows Strangers and Brothers sequence is a towering achievement that stands alongside Anthony Powells A Dance to the Music of Time as one of the great romans-fleuves of the twentieth century.