Olivia in India (Summarized Edition)

Olivia in India is a sprightly epistolary novel in which a young Scottish traveler reports, with lucid wit and tact, on the textures of British India—railway journeys and hill-stations, verandah gossip and bazaar pageants, dust-storms and kindnesses. The letters accumulate into a novel of manners whose gentle satire never masks a steady moral curiosity. Written in the Edwardian twilight, it belong...