Author: SCOTT, PAUL
Title: The Raj Quartet - the Jewel in the Crown, the Day of the Scorpion, the Towers of Silence, a Division of the Spoils
Description: London, Heinemann. 1984. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ copy which has light foxing to top edge else unmarked with G+ dustjacket which is not price-clipped. 599 pages. Here, in one volume, are the four celebrated novels of 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, A Division of the Spoils - take place in the period between the Quit India riots of 1942 and the communal massacres that accompanied independence and partition in 1947. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY BOOK OF 1.5 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST 21. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: British Rule in India, Partition


See more books from our catalog: Historical Fiction