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.
Aristotel noted that "art imitates life" but it turned out that "life imitates art" can also be the other way around, as in the case of the novel The First, Second, Third Man by Mirjana Đurđević.