Corridors of Power

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House of Stratus, 1964 - 403 pages

The corridors and committee rooms of Whitehall are the setting for the ninth in the Strangers and Brothers series. They are also home to the manipulation of political power. Roger Quaife wages his ban-the-bomb campaign from his seat in the Cabinet and his office at the Ministry. The stakes are high as he employs his persuasiveness.

 

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Table des matières

3
22
5
33
6
41
7
53
9
64
Introduction of an Outsider
79
Humiliation Among Friends
103
Pretext for a Conversation
113
A Sense of Insult
225
Recommendation by a Prudent Man
234
Symptoms
242
A Man Called Monteith
248
The Purity of Being Persecuted
261
A Choice
270
Part Five THE VOTE
279
Something out of Character
281

The Switch of Suspicion
122
The Euphoria of Touching Wood
132
Sudden Cessation of a Nuisance
140
Evening in the Park
146
Breakfast
153
Visit to a Small Sittingroom
163
Dispatch Boxes in the Bedroom
170
A Speech to the Fishmongers
180
Parliamentary Question
190
Promenade beneath the Chandeliers
202
A Name without much Meaning
213
Part Four TOWARDS A CHOICE
217
Memorial Service
219
The Use of Money
287
A Small Room and a Gasring
293
Political Arithmetic
305
An Evening of Triumph
309
Quarrel in the Corridor
321
View from the Box
329
The Meaning of Numbers
338
You Have Nothing to Do with It
346
A Good Letter
351
Another Choice
356
Night Sky over London
360
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C. P. Snow was born on October 15, 1905 in Leicester, England. He graduated from Leicester University and received a doctorate in physics at the University of Cambridge. After working at Cambridge in molecular physics for about 20 years, he became a university administrator. During World War II, he was a scientific adviser to the British government. He was knighted in 1957 and created a Baron in the life peerage in 1964. He wrote an 11-volume novel sequence collectively called Strangers and Brothers, which was published between 1940 and 1970. His other works of fiction include Death Under Sail, In Their Wisdom, and A Coat of Varnish. He also wrote several non-fiction works including The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Public Affairs, Trollope: His Life and Art, and The Realists: Eight Portraits. He died on July 1, 1980 at the age of 74.

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