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Scott s gifts as a buttonholing storyteller, and his rich, closetextured prose. Listen to the complete the raj quartet book series. The raj quartet paperback january 1, 1976 by paul scott author. Bbc radio 4 classic serial by paul scott, dramatised by john harvey four novels charting the last days of the british raj in india as the second world war leads inevitably towards independence. In a regimental hill station, the ladies of pankot struggle to preserve the genteel facade of british socie. The raj quartet is a fourvolume novel sequence, written by paul scott, about the concluding years of the british raj in india. The novels explaining britains path from the raj to brexit. Abstract paul scott was a wellknown british novelist, playwright and poet who wrote the famous tetralogy, the raj. He is the author of distinguished novels, including his famous the raj quartet. He is the author of thirteen distinguished novels including his famous the raj quartet.
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