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paulataua's review against another edition
5.0
A major investment of my time, but one that really paid dividends. I found myself really sucked into the lives of the characters, and although and I could neither love nor hate them, I could feel for them, caught, as they were, ‘like butterflies in a web’. The Raj Quartet is one of those rare masterpieces that takes something you have little interest in and people that you have no time for, and yet it manages to make you feel what you never expected to feel.
marilynsaul's review against another edition
4.0
When you realize you can skip 1/3 of the three succeeding books of the Quartet, as they are rehash of the previous books, then it goes quite quickly. I believe it was originally published in serial form. Yes, it was a fabulous series, keeping in mind that it was the British version of the Raj. It helped that it had been made into a movie. If you are just now reading the Raj, I suggest you follow it up with the Native version of the Raj: The House of Blue Mangoes by David Davidar. Written decades later, it is superior in style and content to the Raj.
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