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''The Quincunx'' was a surprise bestseller.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19900603&id=lLYrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Y-UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6917,678758 "The Quincunx" Twists Its Way To Success] Jessica Baldwin, [[Associated Press]], ''[[Lawrence Journal-World]]'', 3 June 1990</ref> 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 [[19th century London|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".<ref>[
[[J. Hillis Miller]]<ref>[http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rodopi/pms/2004/00000035/00000001/art00008 Parody as Revisionary Critique: Charles Palliser’s The Quincunx], [[J. Hillis Miller]]</ref> points out that
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