Roy Calvert and his friend Lewis Eliot (now a legal don) are involved in the choice between two men for a new master at a Cambridge college: the cold, inhumane, but renowned scientist Crawford, or a literary scholar named Paul Jago, a warm and humble man full of sympathy for the human condition. The conflict in the novel prefigures Snow's later concerns about "the two cultures"--science (representing the modern) and literature (representing tradition). The novel won the James Tate Black Memorial Prize in 1937.
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Roy Calvert and his friend Lewis Eliot (now a legal don) are involved in the choice between two men for a new master at a Cambridge college: the cold, inhumane, but renowned scientist Crawford, or a literary scholar named Paul Jago, a warm and humble man full of sympathy for the human condition. The conflict in the novel prefigures Snow's later concerns about "the two cultures"--science (representing the modern) and literature (representing tradition). The novel won the James Tate Black Memorial Prize in 1937.
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