Cambria Press 2011 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 450 p. Contains: Unspecified.

Cambria Press 2011 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 450 p. Contains: Unspecified.

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Hardback. New. ISBN 1604977507 9781604977509 [GB]

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. ISBN 1604977507 9781604977509 [US]

ISBN10: 1604977507, ISBN13: 9781604977509, [publisher: Cambria Press] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - If novelist Paul Mark Scott (1920-1978) has secured a niche in English literature, it is on the merits of his Raj Quartet and its sequel, Staying On, for which he won the Booker Prize in 1977. Yet by the time he had published The Jewel in the Crown in 1966, he had supported his family on his writing for six years, worked as a literary advisor for several publishers, routinely written book reviews for The Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and Country Life, and published eight novels. Scott's literary reputation was already considerable when, at the age of 44, he embarked on The Raj Quartet that would take up the last fourteen years of his life-a masterpiece that reinterpreted the major events of his generation and challenged his contemporaries to face the legacy of their past.Beginning in 1964, Scott negotiated with the Harry Ransom Research Center at The University of Texas-Austin for the purchase of his manuscripts. Later, when he was teaching creative writing at the University of Tulsa in 1976, he arranged to sell his letters to the archives at McFarlin Library. Many years after his death, David Higham Associates (the literary agency for which Scott worked from 1950-1960 and which acted as Scott's own agent until his death in 1978) sold archival materials to the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas-Aust ...
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