First published in 1989, this huge novel was born of the author's
love of Victorian fiction. With a teeming, late Regency setting, it
tells the intricate story of one John Huffam - born into a complex
and confusing situation and forced to look back into his own
parents' past and beyond to a mysterious document written 50 years
before, to make sense of his own uncertain present. It was never
intended as a historical novel - which Palliser defines as a book
set in the past but written from the perspective of its own time -
but rather as an ironic reconstruction of a novel from his favoured
period. Its intricacy and hidden storyline will appeal to literary
puzzlers but it really can be read and enjoyed on various levels.
An interesting literary experiment, and the status it has achieved
since its original publication bears witness to its success.
(Kirkus UK)
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.
" You read the first page and down you wonderfully fall, into a
long, large, wide world of fiction."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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