This is the second of three volumes in the omnibus edition of C.P. Snow's series, Strangers and Brothers. One entry in the series, also titled Strangers and Brothers, was later revised and re-published as George Passant. Please do not combine LT's work for the individual volume with any LT work for a part of the series. Thank you.

From the author’s Preface to the Omnibus edition, Vol. 1:

"… This [Omnibus] edition … contains the text which I should like to be read. The arrangement of the volumes is different from that in which they have been separately published, and there is a fair amount of amendment both in structural detail and in words. …" [Page xi.]

"… [T]he order of this edition is that in which they have existed in my mind, with one half-exception, and one note about a discarded volume. The half-exception is that for some time I was undecided whether the sequence should begin with George Passant or Time of Hope. George Passant is, as it were, a long insert in Time of Hope. It has significance in Lewis Eliot’s experience which is eventually resolved in the final volumes. …" [Page xii.]

"… Another much more prosaic and practical problem occurred because of the publication of the volumes as independent and self-sufficient novels. … Either one said that the volumes were unintelligible unless the reader is familiar with what has gone before: or, alternatively, one used all appropriate means to make them effectively independent, or at the very least capable of being read on their own account. … This, however, meant, and couldn’t help but mean, a certain amount of repetitive explanation … and, above all, of repetitive introduction of characters. …

In this edition, designed to be read as one, all of that would be irritating or worse, destructive of the unity of the whole. It has been eliminated. …" [Page xiv.]