![]() ![]() ![]() In other words, it is EXACTLY my kind of book and I absolutely loved it.īut I'm getting ahead of myself. It is a big, fat (781 pages!) historical novel that is the closest thing that I have ever read to a Dickens novel without actually being Dickens it's kind of like a cross between Bleak Houseand Oliver Twistwith a little Downton Abbey thrown in. I believe I understand it until I start to ponder on it and then the explanation goes flying off in a thousand different in a a shower of words: codicils and judgments and instruments and orders and all those other ugly terms associated with the law and Chancery that have cursed our family for more than half a century."īasicallly, this quote explains Charles Palliser's The Quincunx in a nutshell. ![]() "My poor head begins to ache when I start to think about it. "It's all so complicated that I don't know if I can ever make it clear," the old lady began with a droll smile. ![]()
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