Last Things is the eleventh and final installment of C. P. Snow's series of novels Strangers and Brothers.

Lewis Eliot, now sixty, experiences a medical condition that requires surgery.

After a near fatal cardiac arrest, Eliot confronts his past life as well as reconciliation with his son Charles.

Snow is so eminently sane and reasonable that he cannot but persuade the reader even where he fails to engage him on more personal terms..."[1] Critic Stanley Weintraub of the New York Times called the novel's publication "a genuine literary event".

"[2] In a review in The New York Review of Books, Michael Wood wrote "It is characteristic of Snow’s lack of moral or literary tact that he can suggest an eschatological climax when he is merely finishing off a thick slice of middle-class English life.