Paul Scott

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Historical Fiction

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Paul Scott was born in London in 1920. He served in the army from 1940 to 1946, mainly in India and Malaya. He is the author of thirteen distinguished novels including his famous The Raj Quartet. In 1977, Staying On won the Booker Prize. Paul Scott died in 1978.

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Average rating: 4.13 · 3,188 ratings · 237 reviews · 34 distinct works

	The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 1,051 ratings — published 1966 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Staying On 3.90 avg rating — 529 ratings — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Day of the Scorpion (The Raj Quartet, Volume 2) 4.20 avg rating — 414 ratings — published 1970 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Raj Quartet, Volume 3: The Towers of Silence 4.23 avg rating — 391 ratings — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Raj Quartet, Volume 4: A Division of Spoils 4.32 avg rating — 368 ratings — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Raj Quartet: The Jewel In The Crown, The Day Of The Scorpion, The Towers Of Silence, A Division Of Spoils. (Volumes 1 Through 4) 4.44 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 1976 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion 4.19 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1968 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Raj Quartet: The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils 4.46 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1975	My rating:
	Six Days in Marapore 3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1953 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Chinese Love Pavilion 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1960 — 9 editions	My rating:

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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

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“English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.”
― Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown

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“That MacGregor and Bibighar are the place of the white and the place of the black? To get from one to the other you could not cross by a bridge but had to your courage in your hands and enter the flood and let yourself be taken with it, lead where it may.”
― Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown

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