The Quincunx

The QuincunxAn extraordinary modern novel in the Victorian tradition, Charles Palliser has created something extraordinary a plot within a plot within a plot of family secrets, mysterious clues, low born birth, high reaching immorality, and, always, always the fog enshrouded, enigmatic character of 19th century London itself. "So compulsively absorbing that reality disappears . . . One is swept along by those enduring emotions that defy modern art and a random

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