The Raj Quartet. The Jewel in the Crown; the Day of the Scorpion; the Towers of Silence; and a Division of the Spoils
Author: Paul Scott
Here, in one volume, are the four celebrated novels by Paul Scott set in the closing years of British rule in India.The main events of the sequence of four novels – The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence and A Division of the Spoils – take place in the period between the Quit India riots of 1942 and the communal massacres that accompanied in….Read More
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