Strangers and Brothers by C. P. Snow
Time of Hope
The first of C. P. Snow's magnificent Strangers and Brothers sequence, set between 1914 and 1933, narrating Lewis Eliot's childhood and early days as a lawyer in London.
George Passant
The second book in C. P. Snow's magnificent Strangers and Brothers sequence. Set between 1925 and 1933, it narrates the rise and fall of an idealistic solicitor's clerk in a small provincial town.
Masters
The prize-winning fifth book in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers sequence. Set in 1937, it follows the struggle for the mastership of a Cambridge college.