C. P. Snow, The Conscience of the Rich

Nicolas Tredell (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1958

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

The Conscience of the Rich (1958) dramatizes the conflict between father and son which begins when Charles March, the favoured scion of a wealthy, long-established Anglo-Jewish family, decides to renounce a promising career as a barrister and become a doctor. It originally appeared as the seventh novel in Snow's “Strangers and Brothers” series, but Snow placed it third, after Time of Hope (1949) and George Passant (1940), when he rearranged the sequence for the 1972 omnibus edition. As throughout the series, Lewis Eliot is the narrator, but whereas Time of Hope focused on his own story, in this novel, as in George Passant, he is not centre-stage. The Conscience of the Rich runs …

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "The Conscience of the Rich". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 February 2007 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=19409, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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