Quincunx
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780345371133 (0345371135)
ASIN: 0345371135
Publish date: 1991-01
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 800
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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