For sheer intricacy and ingenuity, for skill and clarity of storytelling, it is the kind of book readers wait for, a book to get lost in. “Few books, at most a dozen or two in a lifetime, affect us this way. “To read the first pages is to be trapped for seven-hundred odd more: you cannot stop turning them.” - The New Yorker

It is an immersing experience.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review In mood, color, atmosphere and characters, this is Charles Dickens reincarnated. And the invitation is irresistible.” - San Francisco Chronicle The Quincunx by Charles Palliser See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 4.79 - 9.19 Paperback 3.86 - 22.00 Select Condition Like New - Very Good - Good 4.79 Acceptable 9.19 New - See All 8 Editions from 3.86 Recommended Format: Hardcover Condition: Good 4.79 Save 20.21 List Price 25. “A bold and vivid tale that invites the reader to get lost in the intoxicating rhythms of another world. It is, quite simply, superb.” - Chicago Sun-Times It is an epic, a tour de force, a staggeringly complex and tantalizingly layered tale that will keep readers engrossed in days.

One is swept along by those enduring emotions that defy modern art and a random universe: hunger for revenge, longing for justice and the fantasy secretly entertained by most people that the bad will be punished and the good rewarded.” - The New York Times “So compulsively absorbing that reality disappears. An 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.

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