The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, #1)

The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, #1)

No set of novels so richly recreates the last days of India under British rule--"two nations locked in an imperial embrace"--as Paul Scott's historical tour de force, "The Raj Quartet." The Jewel in t…

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