The Raj Quartet, Volume 4 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Raj Quartet, Volume 4 write by Paul Scott. This book was released on 1998-05-22. The Raj Quartet, Volume 4 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Against the backdrop of the violent partition of India and Pakistan, this volume sketches one last bittersweet romance, revealing the divided loyalties of the British as they flee, retreat from, or cling to India.
The Jewel In The Crown
The Jewel In The Crown - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jewel In The Crown write by Paul Scott. This book was released on 2011-09-30. The Jewel In The Crown available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ___________________ NOW A BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA DRAMATISATION STARRING ANNA MAXWELL MARTIN AND PRASANNA PUWANARAJAH ___________________ BOOK ONE OF THE RAJ QUARTET India 1942: everything is in flux. World War II has shown that the British are not invincible and the self-rule lobby is gaining many supporters. Against this background, Daphne Manners, a young English girl, is brutally raped in the Bibighat Gardens. The racism, brutality and hatred launched upon the head of her young Indian lover echo the dreadful violence perpetrated on Daphne and reveal the desperate state of Anglo-Indian relations. The rift that will eventually prise India - the jewel in the Imperial Crown - from colonial rule is beginning to gape wide. ___________________ 'A major work, a glittering combination of brilliant craftsmanship, psychological perception and objective reporting... Rarely have the sounds and smells and total atmosphere been so evocatively suggested' - New York Times 'Absorbing and brilliant... A triumph' - Evening Standard 'One of the most important landmarks of post-war fiction... A mighty literary experience' - The Times 'Quite simply, monumental' - Washington Post
The Day of the Scorpion
The Day of the Scorpion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Day of the Scorpion write by Paul Scott. This book was released on 1968. The Day of the Scorpion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Continues the story of the last days British rule in India in the early 1940's.
Staying On
Staying On - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staying On write by Paul Scott. This book was released on 2013-02-11. Staying On available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating her husband, Lucy claims a degree of independence herself. Eloquent and hilarious, she and Tusker act out class tensions among the British of the Raj and give voice to the loneliness, rage, and stubborn affection in their marriage. Staying On won the Booker Prize in 1977 and was made into a motion picture starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in 1979. "Staying On far transcends the events of its central action. . . . [The work] should help win for Scott . . . the reputation he deserves—as one of the best novelists to emerge from Britain's silver age."—Robert Towers, Newsweek "Scott's vision is both precise and painterly. Like an engraver cross-hatching in the illusion of fullness, he selects nuances that will make his characters take on depth and poignancy."—Jean G. Zorn, New York Times Book Review "A graceful comic coda to the earlier song of India. . . . No one writing knows or can evoke an Anglo-Indian setting better than Scott."—Paul Gray, Time "Staying On provides a sort of postscript to [Scott's] deservedly acclaimed The Raj Quartet. . . . He has, as it were, summoned up the Raj's ghost in Staying On. . . . It is the story of the living death, in retirement, and the final end of a walk-on character from the quartet. . . . Scott has completed the task of covering in the form of a fictional narrative the events leading up to India's partition and the achievement of independence in 1947. It is, on any showing, a creditable achievement."—Malcolm Muggeridge, New York Times Book Review
The Raj Quartet
The Raj Quartet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Raj Quartet write by Paul Scott. This book was released on 1971. The Raj Quartet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
