Author: Paul Scott
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date: 2011-09-30
Book Size: 15.95 MB
Book Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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The Raj Quartet Volume 1

by Paul Scott, The Raj Quartet Volume 1 Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Raj Quartet Volume 1 book, 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 the Crown opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for independence. On the night after the Indian Congress Party votes to support Ghandi, riots break out and an ambitious police sargeant arrests a young Indian for the alleged rape of the woman they both love.

Author: Paul Scott
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date: 2007
Book Size: 47.10 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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The Raj Quartet

by Paul Scott, The Raj Quartet Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Raj Quartet book, Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Second World War and the growing campaign for Indian independence. Book one, The Jewel in the Crown, describes the doomed love between an English girl and an Indian boy, Daphne Manners and Hari Kumar. This affair touches the lives of other characters in three subsequent books, most of them unknown to Hari and Daphne but involved in the larger social and political conflicts which destroy the lovers. On occasions unsparing in its study of personal dramas and racial differences, the Raj Quartet is at all times profoundly humane, not least in the author's capacity to identify with a huge range of characters. It is also illuminated by delicate social comedy and wonderful evocations of the Indian scene, all narrated in luminous prose.

Author: Paul Scott
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: 2011-09-30
Book Size: 64.48 MB
Book Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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The Jewel In The Crown

by Paul Scott, The Jewel In The Crown Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Jewel In The Crown book, BOOK ONE OF THE RAJ QUARTET India 1942: everything is in flux. World War II has shown that the British are not invincible and the self-rule lobby is gaining many supporters. Against this background, Daphne Manners, a young English girl, is brutally raped in the Bibighat Gardens. The racism, brutality and hatred launched upon the head of her young Indian lover echo the dreadful violence perpetrated on Daphne and reveal the desperate state of Anglo-Indian relations. The rift that will eventually prise India - the jewel in the Imperial Crown - from colonial rule is beginning to gape wide.

Author: Paul Scott
Publisher: St Martins Press
Release Date: 1983
Book Size: 11.28 MB
Book Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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The Making Of The Jewel In The Crown

by Paul Scott, The Making Of The Jewel In The Crown Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Making Of The Jewel In The Crown book, Discusses the production, filming, and cast of PBS television's Masterpiece Theater production of "The Jewel in the Crown," a fourteen-week series based on Paul Scott's "Raj Quartet," novels focusing on the tumultuous history of India between 1942 and 1947

Author: John Lennard
Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks
Release Date: 2008-01-01
Book Size: 33.82 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 97
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Paul Scott

by John Lennard, Paul Scott Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Paul Scott book, A study of Scott's four great novels of British India - The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils - and of the popular coda, Staying On.

Author: عتيق رحيمي
Publisher: Dar al Saqi
Release Date: 2017-03-17
Book Size: 15.53 MB
Book Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : ar
Pages : 256
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by عتيق رحيمي, Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download book, في هذه الرواية يقدِّم لنا عتيق رحيمي صورة مأسوية عنيفة عن أفغانستان من خلال جريمة قتل تتماهى مع قتل راسكولنيكوف المرابية العجوز في «الجريمة والعقاب» لدوستويفسكي! +++ نعم، أقدم رسول على قتل عجوزه لينقذ من البؤس خطيبته وأخته وأمه لكنّه لم يلقَ المصير الذي لقيه شبيهه راسكولنيكوف! فجريمته لم يُعثر فيها على جثة، ولم يوجد لها شهود، ولا ما يثبت السرقة! +++ أكانت جريمة خيالية؟ جريمة مُتوَهَّمة؟ لا لشيء إلا لتسليط الضوء على عبثية القتل في أفغانستان الغارقة في حروبها الأهلية؟!

Author: Paul Scott
Publisher:
Release Date: 2007
Book Size: 56.11 MB
Book Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 787
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The Raj Quartet

by Paul Scott, The Raj Quartet Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Raj Quartet book,

Author: Paul Scott
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date: 2007
Book Size: 70.42 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1019
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The Raj Quartet The Towers Of Silence

by Paul Scott, The Raj Quartet The Towers Of Silence Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Raj Quartet The Towers Of Silence book, Set against the backdrop of Gandhi's calls for independence and a potential Japanese invasion, four masterful historical novels--The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, and A Division of the Spoils--covering the period between the Quit India riots of 1942 and the massacres that accompanied independence and partition in 1947 provide insight into the closing years of British rule in India.

Author: Claire Monk
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date: 2015-01-28
Book Size: 35.24 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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British Historical Cinema

by Claire Monk, British Historical Cinema Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download British Historical Cinema book, Films recreating or addressing 'the past' - recent or distant, actual or imagined - have been a mainstay of British cinema since the silent era. From Elizabeth to Carry On Up The Khyber, and from the heritage-film debate to issues of authenticity and questions of genre, British Historical Cinema explores the ways in which British films have represented the past on screen, the issues they raise and the debates they have provoked. Discussing films from biopics to literary adaptations, and from depictions of Britain's colonial past to the re-imagining of recent decades in retro films such as Velvet Goldmine, a range of contributors ask whose history is being represented, from whose perspective, and why.

Author: Benita Parry
Publisher: Verso
Release Date: 1998
Book Size: 33.61 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Delusions And Discoveries

by Benita Parry, Delusions And Discoveries Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Delusions And Discoveries book, No cultural phenomenon of the 1970s and 1980s in Britain was more curious than the Raj revival, with its slew of films and fictions, its rage for memorabilia of imperial rule in India, and its strange nostalgia for a time and a world long since past. Today, with the arrival of so-called postcolonial studies, that revival lives on in a strange afterlife of critical study. Writing some years before Raj nostalgia became all the rage, and out of the rather different political and intellectual climate of 1960s national liberation struggles, Benita Parry produced what remains one of the landmark studies of British attitudes towards India. Available for the first time in Paper, Delusions and Discoveries authoritatively surveys the mix of racist and jingoistic prejudices that dominated the writings of Anglo-Indians from Flora Annie Steele and Maud Diver to Kipling and beyond. The book also includes treatments of more liberal thinkers like Edmund Candler, Edward James Thompson and E. M. Forster, as well as a new preface by the author situating her work in relation to recent studies of the culture of colony and empire.

Author: David Bates
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date: 1994-07-01
Book Size: 55.86 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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England And Normandy In The Middle Ages

by David Bates, England And Normandy In The Middle Ages Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download England And Normandy In The Middle Ages book, The histories of England and of Normandy in the middle ages were inextricably linked. England and Normandy in the Middle Ages provides a synoptic view by leading scholars of not only political and military but also of ecclesiastical and cultural links. Taken together these essays provide an up-to-date scholarly account of relations between England and its immediate neighbour.

Author: Lynda G. Adamson
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Release Date: 1994-01-01
Book Size: 72.73 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Recreating The Past

by Lynda G. Adamson, Recreating The Past Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Recreating The Past book, Helping young people select appropriate historical fiction is easy with this annotated bibliography of 970 recommended American and world titles published to early 1994. Spanning grades 1-10+ it includes adult titles suitable for young adult readers. At least 200 of the titles are award winners. Each entry contains both reading and interest grade levels, a short incisive annotation about the historical event, setting, plot, protagonist and theme, current publication availability, and awards won. Seven reference appendices allow the user to search by country of setting, reading and interest grade level, protagonists from minority groups, sequels or the same characters in a series, important historical dates, and a glossary of historical and famous people or groups appearing in the works.