 First edition | |
| Author | Charles Percy Snow |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Strangers and Brothers |
| Publisher | Macmillan |
Publication date | 1968 |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | Corridors of Power |
| Followed by | Last Things |
The Sleep of Reason is the tenth book in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers series.
Lewis Eliot returns to his home town during the trial of two young women for murder. Eliot and his generation strive to understand the society of the 1960s.
In a 1968 book review in Kirkus Reviews summarized the book as; "Snow's approach is as massively ceremonious as ever. Each character is introduced by an organ chord of commentary: thoughts are as long as life; characters from other books are prodded into being. But there is a certain dogged majesty in this far exit as Snow lumbers down the halls of power." [1]
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The Unquiet Sleep is a 1962 suspense novel by British author William Haggard which was published in England by Cassell and in the United States by Ives Washburn. It is the 4th novel in a series of 21 books that involve urbane protagonist, Colonel Charles Russell. Russel is the head of the Security Executive, a government counterintelligence agency based on the actual MI5 or Security Service. He moves easily and gracefully along C.P. Snow's Corridors of Power in Whitehall. As in Haggard's earlier books, it has the standard elements of a suspense thriller along with detailed examinations of character, but with more scenes of direct action and somewhat less dissection of character and motivation from the first three books.
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