I like this one best, so far. The focusing on Barbara allows for more a look at not just the Raj but also the class issues. There is some beautiful writing here as well. So many people you want to smack.
When I was in college, I saw the famous mini-series based on this series. I tried reading the first book, and for some reason, couldn't get into it. This year, suddenly, I felt an overwhelming desire to try again. I am glad I did. Scott's second volume adds more characters, including two young ...
India is The Jewel in the Crown. It signified the Crown's most precious dominion of the Victorian era - its control, forced conformity, "civilizing" and exploitation of India. Missionary Edwina Crane's semiallegorical picture titled "The Jewel in Her Crown" In 1942, the end of Em...
well, this book is intense.with the colonial backdrop,this book harbours a love story.this book is all about daphne and hari.although the protagonist arrives late in the story,the way in which story builds is fabulous.there are lots of character in this story and every one is described in detail....
“English 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 with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.” Whenever I run into someone...
BURIED TREASURE ALERT: the works of Paul Scott. he is perhaps most famous for his excellent The Raj Quartet and its 1977 Booker Prize winning follow up novel Staying On (in my opinion, a gentle and wise novel but clearly a lesser work). outside of those classics, it feels like he is practically unkn...
It would not be an exaggeration to say that this is the most awesome novel which I have read about British India. The story is gripping: the language poetic ("the indigo dreams of flowers fallen asleep", to recall a phrase which lingers in the memory): and the characterisation near flawless. Even ...
message 24: by mark 27 minutes ago i can't narrow it down, that's an unfair demand! nor am i lurker. but hey, i'm awake at 3:18 am so that's reason enough: Absolute Beginners The Raj Quartet Little, Big Thin Red Line Catcher in the Rye (sorry, haters) message 25: by karen, future RA queen (new) 12 ...
Staying On won the Booker Prize but I just don't get why it got the prize instead of any of the books within the The Raj Quartet. it is basically an addendum to that amazing piece of literature. still, a nice addendum.
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