Modern english literature

Charles Percy Snow began writing in the thirties. “The Search”, the first of his novels, was published in 1934. Six years later, in 1940, appeared his novel “Strangers and Brothers” which then became the title of a whole sequence of novels written in the forties, fifties and sixties. The second novel of the sequence entitled “The Light and the Dark”, was published in 1947. It was succeeded by the novels “Time of Hope” (1949) and “The Masters” (1951). Later on “The New Men” (1954), “Homecomings” (1956), “The Conscience of the Rich” (1959) and “The Affair” (1960) were added to it, but the sequence is not yet completed. “Corridors of Powers”, the latest of all the novels already written, appeared in 1964. The author himself divided all the books of the sequence into two main groups. The first group is called “novels of private experience” and includes “Time of Hope” (1947) and “Homecomings” (1956). All the rest belong to the group of “novels of conditioned experience”. The main hero of all the books is Louis Eliot, scientist and statesman, this is why English literary critics call them “the Louis Eliot sequence”. In the so-called “novels of private experience”, Snow describes the life of Louis Eliot in his youth (“Time of Hope”) and in the middle age (“Homecomings”), while in other novels the lives of his friends, relatives and acquaintances is seen through his eyes. In general, Snow makes an impressive study of English society in the twentieth century. True to the method of modern critical realism, the writer places the representatives of different classes and social circles in the centre of his artistic attention.

• Charles Percy Snow began writing in the thirties. “The Search”, the first of his novels, was published in 1934. Six years later, in 1940, appeared his novel “Strangers and Brothers” which then became the title of a whole sequence of novels written in the forties, fifties and sixties. The second novel of the sequence entitled “The Light and the Dark”, was published in 1947. It was succeeded by the novels “Time of Hope” (1949) and “The Masters” (1951). Later on “The New Men” (1954), “Homecomings” (1956), “The Conscience of the Rich” (1959) and “The Affair” (1960) were added to it, but the sequence is not yet completed. “Corridors of Powers”, the latest of all the novels already written, appeared in 1964. The author himself divided all the books of the sequence into two main groups. The first group is called “novels of private experience” and includes “Time of Hope” (1947) and “Homecomings” (1956). All the rest belong to the group of “novels of conditioned experience”. The main hero of all the books is Louis Eliot, scientist and statesman, this is why English literary critics call them “the Louis Eliot sequence”. In the so-called “novels of private experience”, Snow describes the life of Louis Eliot in his youth (“Time of Hope”) and in the middle age (“Homecomings”), while in other novels the lives of his friends, relatives and acquaintances is seen through his eyes. In general, Snow makes an impressive study of English society in the twentieth century. True to the method of modern critical realism, the writer places the representatives of different classes and social circles in the centre of his artistic attention.