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.
This is an accusation, a slander, a personal insult. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a continuous insult, a spit in the face of Art, a foot in the tur against God, Man, Fate, Time, Love, Beauty...whatever you want.
Sveučilišna naklada Liber (SNL), 1981.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
Harley Altmayer is a teenager who supports his three younger sisters after his mother was sentenced to life in prison for killing their abusive father.