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25%OFFPaul Scott - The Raj Quartet - 9781857152975 - V9781857152975
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The Raj Quartet

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Description for The Raj Quartet Hardcover. 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. This book describes the love between an English girl and an Indian boy, Daphne Manners and Hari Kumar. Num Pages: 1032 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 127 x 47. Weight in Grams: 898.

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. Book one, 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 books, most of them unknown to Hari ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
1032
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1032
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857152975
SKU
V9781857152975
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About Paul Scott
Paul Scott (1920-1978) was born in North London, the second son of a struggling commercial artist and a mother who had burned her unpublished novels the night before her wedding. Scott's boyhood hobby of producing amateur films led him to invent dialogue - verbal images would always provide essential starting-points for his writing. Forced to leave school early and enter ... Read more

Reviews for The Raj Quartet
Not many of E. M Forster's readers could have imagined then that his book's theme
relations between Europeans and non-Europeans
would soon become an acute human and literary concern. The topic has recurred often enough in fiction since then, but never, to my knowledge, has it been treated as brilliantly as it is in Paul Scott's novel, The ... Read more

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