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The Quincunx
![The Quincunx: The Inheritance of John Huffam; [With a New Afterword by the Author] - Charles Palliser](http://booklikes.com/photo/max/200/300/upload/books/b/8/azure_b8fd9323b533b9f530f38c9b2ce33522.jpg)
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Read from January 01, 1997 to December 17, 2011
** spoiler alert ** The book dedication: For my Mother (4th May 1919- 22nd February 1989)
The nomenclature of protagonist John Huffam is plucked from Charles John Huffam Dickens. As the story of The Quincunx progresses, the threads of many famous Dickens stories are on show however this is a vast tale in its own right and not for the faint of heart or weak of wrist. If you enjoyed the size and scope of both The Life and Times of Nicholas Nickleby and Bleak House then this will be for you.
From wiki - The Quincunx was a surprise bestseller. It is notable for its portrayal of 19th century England, covering the breadth of society from the gentry to the poor and from provincial villages to metropolitan London, and its dealing with the eccentricities of English land law. In a review citing parallels with Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, Martin Chuzzlewit, The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby, Michael Malone has written that "Mr. Palliser appears to have set out not merely to write a Dickens novel but to write all Dickens novels".
The nomenclature of protagonist John Huffam is plucked from Charles John Huffam Dickens. As the story of The Quincunx progresses, the threads of many famous Dickens stories are on show however this is a vast tale in its own right and not for the faint of heart or weak of wrist. If you enjoyed the size and scope of both The Life and Times of Nicholas Nickleby and Bleak House then this will be for you.
From wiki - The Quincunx was a surprise bestseller. It is notable for its portrayal of 19th century England, covering the breadth of society from the gentry to the poor and from provincial villages to metropolitan London, and its dealing with the eccentricities of English land law. In a review citing parallels with Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, Martin Chuzzlewit, The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby, Michael Malone has written that "Mr. Palliser appears to have set out not merely to write a Dickens novel but to write all Dickens novels".
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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