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Paul Scott

Born

in London, England, The United Kingdom

March 25, 1920

Died

March 01, 1978

Genre

Historical Fiction

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Paul Mark Scott was an English novelist best known for his tetralogy The Raj Quartet. In the last years of his life, his novel Staying On won the Booker Prize (1977). The series of books was dramatised by Granada Television during the 1980s and won Scott the public and critical acclaim that he had not received during his lifetime.
Born in suburban London, Scott was posted to India, Burma and Malaya during World War II. On return to London he worked as a notable literary agent, before deciding to write full time from 1960. In 1964 he returned to India for a research trip, though he was struggling with ill health and al ...more

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Average rating: 4.14 · 17,476 ratings · 1,332 reviews · 174 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 6,189 ratings — published 1966 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Staying On (The Raj Quartet, #5) 3.89 avg rating — 4,236 ratings — published 1977 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Day of the Scorpion (The Raj Quartet, #2) 4.29 avg rating — 1,778 ratings — published 1968 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Towers of Silence (The Raj Quartet, #3) 4.27 avg rating — 1,525 ratings — published 1971 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Division of the Spoils (The Raj Quartet, #4) 4.39 avg rating — 1,462 ratings — published 1975 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Raj Quartet 4.49 avg rating — 1,048 ratings — published 1976 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Raj Quartet 1: The Jewel in the Crown/The Day of the Scorpion 4.40 avg rating — 313 ratings — published 1968 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Raj Quartet 2: The Towers of Silence/A Division of the Spoils by Paul Scott, Hilary Spurling (Introduction) 4.55 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 1975 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Days in Marapore 3.77 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1953 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chinese Love Pavilion 3.32 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1960 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Raj Quartet (5 books)
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“English is not spare. But it is beautiful. It cannot be called truthful because its subtleties are infinite. It is the language of a people who have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.”
― Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown

tags: english, language

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“Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.”
― Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown

tags: gossip, rumours

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“There’s a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.”
― Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown

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Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury, 1957, 293 pages

29 votes, 20.3%

To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway, 1937, 176 pages

29 votes, 20.3%

The Godfatherby Mario Puzo, 1969, 428 pages

25 votes, 17.5%

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, 1992, 320 pages

21 votes, 14.7%

Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, 144 pages, 1993

17 votes, 11.9%

Plainsong by Kent Haruf, 1999, 301 pages

12 votes, 8.4%

The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott, 1998, 472 pages

10 votes, 7.0%

143 total votes

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