The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott. I've finished the Jewel in the Crown and started on The Day of the Scorpion yesterday. It was a little slow for me to get into at first, but now, well I read over 200 pages yesterday. Not an e-book by the way, I picked up a great deal at my local library surplus sale a couple of months ago; $5.00 for the whole set in hardcover. It is at this point an orphan title as far as e-books go.