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- 787 páginas
- 28 horas de lectura
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The protagonist, a young man naive enough to be blind to all clues about his own hidden history (and to the fact that his very existence is troubling to all manner of evildoers) narrates a story of uncommon beauty which not only brings readers face-to-face with dozens of piquantly drawn characters at all levels of 19th-century English society but re-creates with precision the tempestuous weather and gnarly landscape that has been a motif of the English novel since Wuthering Heights. The suspension of disbelief happens easily, as the reader is led through twisted family trees and plot lines. The quincunx of the title is a heraldic figure of five parts that appears at crucial points within the text (the number five recurs throughout the novel, which itself is divided into five parts, one for each of the family galaxies whose orbits the narrator is pulled into). Quintuple the length of the ordinary novel, this extraordinary tour de force also has five times the ordinary allotment of adventure, action and aplomb.
Compra de libros
The Quincunx, Charles Palliser
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 1990
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa blanda)
Métodos de pago
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- Título
- The Quincunx
- Subtítulo
- A Novel
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Charles Palliser
- Editorial
- Random house publishing group
- Publicado en
- 1990
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 787
- ISBN10
- 0345371135
- ISBN13
- 9780345371133
- Serie
- Categorías
- Etiquetas
- Tema histórico, Novelas de crimen, Siglo XX, Literatura Británica, Siglo XIX, Inglaterra, Literatura inglesa, Misterioso, Londres, Gótica, Época Victoriana, Británicos
- Descripción
- The protagonist, a young man naive enough to be blind to all clues about his own hidden history (and to the fact that his very existence is troubling to all manner of evildoers) narrates a story of uncommon beauty which not only brings readers face-to-face with dozens of piquantly drawn characters at all levels of 19th-century English society but re-creates with precision the tempestuous weather and gnarly landscape that has been a motif of the English novel since Wuthering Heights. The suspension of disbelief happens easily, as the reader is led through twisted family trees and plot lines. The quincunx of the title is a heraldic figure of five parts that appears at crucial points within the text (the number five recurs throughout the novel, which itself is divided into five parts, one for each of the family galaxies whose orbits the narrator is pulled into). Quintuple the length of the ordinary novel, this extraordinary tour de force also has five times the ordinary allotment of adventure, action and aplomb.