Corridors of Power by C.P. Snow

The novel explores the intersection of politics and science through the story of a group of Cambridge academics who become embroiled in British politics during World War II. The protagonist, a scientist, navigates the complexities of academic politics while also dealing with the moral implications of scientific discovery and its application to war efforts.

By C.P. Snow · First published 1959 · Genre: Political Fiction, Social Commentary, Literary Fiction · 47 chapters

Contents

• A London Dinner Party
• The Old Hero
• A Speech in the Commons
• Something in the Open
• The Scientists
• A Weekend in the Country
• Another Home
• Knight on a Tombstone
• Two Kinds of Alienation
• News in South Street
• Introduction of an Outsider
• An Even Bet
• In Honour of Lord Lufkin
• Humiliation Among Friends
• Self-Defence
• Pretext for a Conversation
• The Switch of Suspicion
• The Euphoria of Touching Wood
• Sudden Cessation of a Nuisance
• Evening in the Park
• Breakfast
• ‘the Knives are Sharpening'
• Visit to a Small Sitting-Room
• Dispatch Boxes in the Bedroom
• A Speech to the Fishmongers
• Parliamentary Question
• Promenade Beneath the Chandeliers
• A Name Without Much Meaning
• Memorial Service
• A Sense of Insult
• Recommendation by a Prudent Man
• Symptoms
• A Man Called Monteith
• The Purity of being Persecuted
• A Choice
• Something out of Character
• The Use of Money
• ‘a Small Room and a Gas-Ring'
• Political Arithmetic
• An Evening of Triumph
• Quarrel in the Corridor
• View from the Box
• The Meaning of Numbers
• ‘you have Nothing to do with it'
• A Good Letter
• Another Choice
• Night Sky over London

More by C.P. Snow

• In their Wisdom (1953)
• The Malcontents (1959)
• Homecomings (1956)
• The New Men (1954)
• All works by C.P. Snow