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1966: G.K. Hall & Co, 1985. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover_cloth. VeryGood/Near Fine. Al Phillips. 6.25"x9.5" 729 pgs. X-library w/graphics. Beautiful blue cloth boards, gold foil letters on spine. Printed in 16pt Times New Roman. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. No set of novels so richly recreates the last days of India under British rule—"two nations locked in an imperial embrace"—as Paul Scott's historical tour de force, The Raj Quartet. The Jewel in the Crown opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for independence. On the night after the Indian Congress Party votes to support Ghandi, riots break out and an ambitious police sargeant arrests a young Indian for the alleged rape of the woman they both love. Source: Publisher The Jewel in the Crown is a 1966 novel by Paul Scott that begins his Raj Quartet. The four-volume novel sequence of the Quartet is set during the final days of the British Raj in India during the Second World War. Wikipedia.
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- Title The Jewel in the Crown
- Author Paul Scott
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Large Print
- Pages 729
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher G. K. Hall & Company, Boston, MA
- Date 1985-04
- Large Print Yes
- ISBN 9780816138449 / 0816138443
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 84027888
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.914
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The Jewel in the Crown: Volume I of The Raj Quartet
by Scott, Paul (1920-1978)
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