Quincunx
After garnering spectacular reviews, attracting unprecedented publicity and enjoying excellent sales, The Quincunx makes its debut in trade paperback. Set in the early 1800s, Palliser's first novel is a Dickensian journey through a young man's life as he searches for his identity. Eventually he...
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After garnering spectacular reviews, attracting unprecedented publicity and enjoying excellent sales, The Quincunx makes its debut in trade paperback. Set in the early 1800s, Palliser's first novel is a Dickensian journey through a young man's life as he searches for his identity. Eventually he will fall into an ancient mystery, a shocking scandal, a passionate love, and a mysterious murder that holds the answer to his existence.
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780345371133 (0345371135)
ASIN: 9780345371133
Publish date: 28-11-1990
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Edition language: English
a mysterious and elaborate narrative done in the classic Dickens style. stays true to the form, particularly in its almost monomaniacal obsession with money and property. the extensive research is obvious and helps to make the era vivid and completely real. characterizations were surprisingly flat f...
The quincunx is an arrangement of five items in a square based on a cross that was used for several five-domed Byzantine churches. It's also a terribly important design in a novel of five parts by Charles Palliser that is absolutely riveting. Set in England during the early nineteenth century, it is...
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