(1934), C. P. Snow’s third novel, focuses on the awakening, pursuit and eventual loss of a scientific vocation. It followed two excursions into genre fiction, and is the kind of realistic novel with which Snow would become primarily associated: it explores the friendships, rivalries and enmities between men in a highly competitive and demanding professional world and also examines, to a lesser but significant extent, their erotic and emotional relationships with women.

dramatizes and analyzes the complex dynamics of hope, ambition, idealism, disappointment and failure in ways which anticipate Snow’s eleven-volume “Strangers and Brothers” series (1940-1970), but it is more than a trial run for “Strangers and Brothers”: it stands as a substantial novel in…

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "The Search". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 January 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=19403, accessed 27 November 2024.]