The Raj Quartet

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Morrow, 1976 - 1922 sider
Four novels covering the period between the Quit India riots of 1942 and the massacres that accompanied independence and partition in 1947 provide insight into the closing years of British rule in India.

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Prologue I
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41
Part Three
84
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Om forfatteren (1976)

Author Paul Scott was born in England on March 25, 1920. At the age of 16, he left the Winchmore Hill Collegiate School because of financial difficulties and started a career as an accountant. In 1940, he joined the army and was sent to India. After World War II, he worked as an accountant for two small publishing houses and then as a literary agent. In 1952, he published his first novel Johnny Sahib and in 1960, he decided to become a full-time author. He is best-known for his series the Raj Quartet and his novel Staying On won the 1977 Booker Prize. He also wrote reviews and was a visiting professor at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. He died on March 1, 1978.

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TittelThe Raj Quartet
The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott
ForfatterPaul Scott
UtgiverMorrow, 1976
Original fraUniversity of Michigan
Digitalisert13. mar 2008
ISBN0688030653, 9780688030650
Lengde1922 sider
  
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