- Fiction, historical, Young men, Fiction, New York Times reviewed
A young man searching for his origins is drawn from the Northern England countryside into the violent and corrupt London underworld of the late Regency.
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Grave, classical in form, plot-driven and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Charles Palliser
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 800
- Publisher
- Canelo, Penguin Books, Limited, Canongate
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781788632164
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