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.
Mimesis is a drastic portrayal of Montenegro as a country of retarded discourses, and after several published excerpts of the manuscript, it has already initiated public condemnation in the writer's country.
Today, Eddard Stark is the Prince of the North and the ruler of Winterfell. But fifteen years ago, as a young man, he placed his sword in the service of Robert Baratheon.