The Jewel in the Crown is a 1966 novel by Paul Scott that begins his Paradise Quartet. The Quartet novel sequence in four volumes is set in the last days of British rule in India during World War II.
Nophaie, an educated Navajo, struggles between two worlds and ultimately dies tragically, leading an uprising against the whites who are systematically destroying his people. Today, it is considered one of the most important early American novels about th
Written during a nostalgic interval during Cooper's stormy battles with the Whig Press, The Deerslayer (1841) is the last of the world-famous Leatherstocking Tales in point of composition, though first in the biographical sequence.