Editing George Passant

{{Short description|1960 novel by C.P. Snow}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox book 
| name           =  George Passant
| title_orig     =  
| translator     =  
| image          =  George Passant book cover.jpg
| image_size     = 
| caption        =  First edition (original title)
| author         =  [[C. P. Snow]]
| cover_artist   =  
| country        =  United Kingdom
| language       =  English
| series         =  [[Strangers and Brothers]]
| genre          =  [[Political fiction]]
| publisher      =  [[Macmillan Publishers]]
| release_date   =  [[1940 in literature|December 1940]]
| media_type     =  Print ([[Hardcover]] and [[Paperback]])
| pages          =  320pp
| isbn = 0-333-04721-4
| isbn_note = (hardcover edition)
| oclc = 12616695
| preceded_by    =  [[Time of Hope]]<br />(reading order)
| followed_by    =  [[The Light and the Dark]]<br />(published order)<br />[[The Conscience of the Rich]]<br />(reading order)
}}

'''''George Passant''''' is the first published of [[C. P. Snow]]'s series of novels ''[[Strangers and Brothers]]'', but the second according to the internal chronology. It was first published under the name ''Strangers and Brothers''. It was published in the United Kingdom in 1940<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=19409|title=The Literary Encyclopedia|author=Nicolas Tredell}}</ref> and in the U.S. in 1960.<ref name="kirkus" />

==Plot synopsis==
George Passant is a [[solicitor]] in a small English town, whose idealism and eccentricity lead him to accumulate a group of young followers in a mentor-like capacity. Narrated by Lewis Eliot, the novel has the more general background of Eliot's rising career and the changes in English society through the 20th century.

==Reception==
In a 1960 book review in ''[[Kirkus Reviews]]'', the book was called a "slowly, closely pursued examination and rationale and an enlightened discussion of questions of conscience and conduct and commitment. And as such, if within a narrower margin, it is filled with the concerns which are so fundamentally and essentially a part of this writer's work and have attracted a firm following."<ref name="kirkus">{{cite journal|title=''Strangers and Brothers'' |newspaper=Kirkus Reviews|date=21 September 1960|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/c-p-snow-2/strangers-and-brothers/ }}</ref>

==References==
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{{Strangers and Brothers}}

[[Category:1940 British novels]]
[[Category:English novels]]
[[Category:British political novels]]
[[Category:Novels by C. P. Snow]]
[[Category:Macmillan Publishers books]]


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