The Masters
22 February 2018Imprint: Bello
Synopsis
Winner of 1954 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.
Widely regarded as C. P. Snow’s masterpiece, this lucid and compelling story of the contest for the Mastership of a Cambridge college is the fifth novel in C. P. Snow’s magnificent Strangers and Brothers sequence.
As the old Master slowly dies of cancer, his colleagues and peers jostle for power. Two candidates...
Details
22 February 2018466 pages
9781509864256Imprint: Bello
Reviews
The Masters stands out boldly as an achievement, lucid, compelling, ironical rather than tragic, generous in its fullnessNew Statesman
Perhaps the most engrossing academic novel in EnglishNew York Times
This book confirms the opinion that Mr Snow is one of the three or four best novelists now writing in EnglishEdward Shanks
Together, the sequence presents a vivid portrait of British academic, political and public life. Snow was that rare thing, a scientist and novelistJeffrey Archer, Guardian
