id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1197 Paul Scott (novelist) - Wikipedia .html text/html 3625 278 67 Paul Mark Scott (25 March 1920 – 1 March 1978) was an English novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his tetralogy The Raj Quartet. It also charts events from the Quit India riots of August 1942 to the violence accompanying the Partition of India and creation of Pakistan in 1946–47, and so represents the collapse of imperial dominance, a process Scott describes in the early pages of The Day of the Scorpion as the time when "the British came to the end of themselves as they were." ^ Spurling, Hilary, Paul Scott: A Life (London, Hutchinson, 1990). Peter Childs, Paul Scott's Raj Quartet: History and Division (Victoria: English Literary Studies, 1998 [ELS Monograph Series 77]) Haswell, Behind Paul Scott's Raj Quartet: A Life in letters. Haswell, Behind Paul Scott's Raj Quartet: A Life in letters. John Lennard, "Paul Scott", in Jay Parini, ed., World Writers in English (2 vols, New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004), II.645–64 Weinbaum, "Paul Scott' India: The Raj Quartet", Critique 20 (1978): 100–110 The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1197.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1197.txt