FREE: HISTORICAL NOVEL BUFFS!! THE COMPLETE "RAJ QUARTET" BY PAUL SCOTT

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If you are a fan of historical novels: here is a great epic story by a master of historical novelization. The set is complete and in good condition. There are a couple of remainder marks on tops of the books. You will receive the entire set with includes, "THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN, "THE DAY OF THE SCORPION," "THE TOWER" OF SILENCE" AND "A DIVISION OF THE SPOILS"


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 OF 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 the larger social and political conflicts which destroy the lovers. In THE DAY OF THE SCORPION, Ronald Merrick, a sadistic policeman who arrested and prosecuted Hari, insinuates himself into an aristocratic British family as World War II escalates.

In THE TOWERS OF SILENCE, Barbie Batchelor, a British missionary and schoolteacher, befriends a British family and witnesses the trial of Hari Kumar, an Indian man accused of assaulting his beloved Daphne Manners, while observing the dangerously cruel Captain Ronald Merrick, Hari’s nemesis. In A DIVISION OF THE SPOILS, the chaos of the departure of the British and the fervor of Partition wreaks havoc upon the twilight of the Raj — and the end of a era.

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