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      The Light and the Dark

      by C.P. Snow / Charles Percy Snow
      Published
      Dec 2000
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      392
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      Series
      Strangers and Brothers Book 2

      About This Book

      A gifted young academic in 1930s England falls prey to a dangerous mindset in this novel by "a master craftsman" (The New York Times).

      Roy Calvert is young, well-liked, and financially secure. He is also a brilliant scholar at Cambridge, engaged in translating ancient documents related to the Manichaean heresy. Yet despite these advantages and successes, he is prone to an unpredictable, inexplicable melancholy that neither love nor work can seem to overcome. It will pull Roy into the orbit of a rising historical darkness—and leave his friend, Lewis Eliot, to witness the frightening struggle between Calvert and his demons . . .

      Praise for the Strangers and Brothers Novels

      "Mr. Snow has established himself . . . in an eminent and conspicuous position among contemporary English novelists." —New Statesman

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      Book 2
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      Dec 2000 House of Stratus ISBN13 9781842324295 ISBN10 1842324292
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      Jan 2010 House of Stratus, Incorporated ISBN13 9780755120147 ISBN10 0755120140
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      Oct 2024 Open Road Publishing ISBN13 9781504096980 ISBN10 1504096983
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