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Line 36: == Style == ''The Quincunx'' was a surprise bestseller.<ref>[~~http~~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>[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/04/books/the-spirit-of-dickens-present.html The Spirit Of Dickens Present], [[Michael Malone]], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 4 March 1990</ref> But Palliser looked beyond Dickens for his depiction of the social conditions, drawing on Mayhew's ''[[London Labour and the London Poor]]''.<ref name="afterword" />

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