Review
The best all-around account we have of the enigmatic ironist...of whom, as Lord Snow shows, even the greatest novelist of them all, Tolstoy, had enviously admiring things to say. (
The Economist )
...in two areas Mr. Snow has made a distinctive contribution—one biographical, the other critical...A word about the copious illustrations. They will delight anyone with a taste...for Victorian genre and anecdotal painting. (
New York Times Book Review )
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About the Author
Born in Leicester, C.P. Snow was educated at University College, Leicester and the University of Cambridge, where he became a Fellow of Christ's College in 1930. He was knighted in 1957 and made a life peer as Baron Snow, of the City of Leicester, in 1964. He served as an assistant to the Minister of Technology in the Labour government of Harold Wilson. Some of his other works include: Variety of Men (1967), The State of Siege (1968), and Public Affairs (1971).
Born in Leicester, C.P. Snow was educated at University College, Leicester and the University of Cambridge, where he became a Fellow of Christ's College in 1930. He was knighted in 1957 and made a life peer as Baron Snow, of the City of Leicester, in 1964. He served as an assistant to the Minister of Technology in the Labour government of Harold Wilson.
Some of his other works include:
Variety of Men (1967),
The State of Siege (1968), and
Public Affairs (1971).
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