The Boston Globe, June 4th, 1991
PAUL SCOTT A Life of the Author of the Raj Quartet By Hilary Spurling. W. W. Norton, illustrated, 438 pp., $24.95 Five years after he died in 1978, Paul Scott became an international celebrity when his novels called "The Raj Quartet" were televised. The four novels, and their pendant, "Staying On," already had a devoted cult following, but few of his readers knew very much about Scott himself, although he had written eight previous novels. When those books appeared in America in imported paperbacks, they didn't make much of a stir -- the themes, conflicts, and atmosphere of the "Raj Quartet" a...
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