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Paul Scott

Born

in Southgate, London, The United Kingdom

March 25, 1920

Died

March 01, 1978

Genre

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: 4.16 · 13,464 ratings · 936 reviews · 96 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 4,882 ratings — published 1966 — 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
	Staying On 3.89 avg rating — 3,228 ratings — published 1977 — 27 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 4.30 avg rating — 1,333 ratings — published 1968 — 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 Towers of Silence 4.29 avg rating — 1,144 ratings — published 1971 — 4 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) 4.38 avg rating — 1,096 ratings — published 1975 — 5 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 4.48 avg rating — 893 ratings — published 1976 — 5 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 — 255 ratings — published 1968 — 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
	The Raj Quartet (2): The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils 4.56 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1975 — 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
	Six Days in Marapore 3.69 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1953 — 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 Chinese Love Pavilion 3.41 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1960 — 14 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 (4 books)
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Quotes by Paul Scott

“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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“The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises.”
― Paul Scott, The Towers of Silence

tags: calendar, surprises, time

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2013 Empire Challenge: Fiction - The East (incl. the Far East & the Middle East)

The Village in the Jungle by Leonard Woolf

6 votes, 19.4%

The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng

6 votes, 19.4%

The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell

4 votes, 12.9%

The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott

4 votes, 12.9%

Rain and Other South Sea Stories by W. Somerset Maugham

2 votes, 6.5%

The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd

2 votes, 6.5%

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

2 votes, 6.5%

Far Eastern Tales by W. Somerset Maugham

2 votes, 6.5%

All About H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani

1 vote, 3.2%

The Last Kashmiri Rose by Barbara Cleverly

1 vote, 3.2%

The Harbour by Francesca Brill

1 vote, 3.2%

The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw

0 votes, 0.0%

The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

0 votes, 0.0%

31 total votes

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