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Paul Scott

The Raj Quartet (1)

The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion

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The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years, has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Second World War and the growing campaign for Indian independence from Britain. The first novel, The Jewel in the Crown, describes the doomed love between an English girl and an Indian boy, Daphne Manners and Hari Kumar. This affair touches the lives of other characters in three subsequent volumes, most of them unknown to Hari and Daphne but involved in… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Spurling, Hilary
  • ISBN: 978-0-307-26396-4
  • EAN: 9780307263964
  • Produktnummer: 19419231
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Seitenangabe: 1032 S.
  • Masse: H21.1 cm x B13.6 cm x D4.2 cm 880 g
  • Gewicht: 880

Über den Autor


PAUL SCOTT was born in London in 1920. He served in the army from 1940 to 1946, mainly in India and Malaya. He is the author of thirteen distinguished novels including his famous The Raj Quartet. In 1977, Staying On won the Booker Prize. Paul Scott died in 1978.

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