The AffairHouse of Stratus, 23 sept. 2008 - 360 pages In the eighth in the Strangers and Brothersseries Donald Howard, a young science Fellow is charged with scientific fraud and dismissed from his college. This novel, which became a successful West End play, describes a miscarriage of justice in the same Cambridge college which served as a setting for The Masters. |
Table des matières
An Unsatisfactory Evening | 3 |
No Sense of the Past | 10 |
A SealingDay | 24 |
Two United Fronts | 32 |
A Party for a Purpose | 43 |
College Dinner on Christmas Day | 54 |
The Component of Contempt | 63 |
Part TwoWHY SHOULD ONE ACT? | 71 |
Two Views of Retirement | 117 |
Never be too Proud to be Present | 127 |
The Government | 137 |
Contracting Out | 145 |
Conversion | 150 |
Part Three THE OFFER | 155 |
Remark from an Official Guest | 157 |
A Piece of Paper | 163 |
Ambiguousness and Temper | 73 |
Treat for a Worldly Man | 85 |
Preoccupation of a Distinguished Scientist | 92 |
Looking Out into the Dark | 98 |
The Stare of Delusion | 105 |
Turns Across the Lawn | 112 |
Two Approaches to a Statesman | 172 |
Under Which King Bezonian? | 182 |
Bargains at a Small DinnerParty | 187 |
Hermitage | 197 |
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