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Desperate Remedies: A Novel (Penguin Classics) Book

Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'.Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative steward Manston. Blackmail, murder and romance are among the ingredients of Hardy's first published novel, and in it he draws blithely on the 'sensation novel' perfected by Wilkie Collins. Several perceptive critics praised the author as a novelist with a future when Desperate Remedies appeared anonymously in 1871. In its depiction of country life and insight into psychology and sexuality it already bears the unmistakable imprint of Hardy's genius.Read More

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    A tale of mystery entanglement surprise and moral obliquity in which Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves Edward Springrove is already engaged to his cousin Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's steward Manston.

  • Blackwell

    Described by Hardy as a tale of mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity, his first published novel violated the literary decorum of its day with blackmail, murder, and romance. It relates the story of Cytherea, a maid to the...

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    Thomas Hardy, Mary Rimmer, Mary Rimmer (Editor)

  • 0140435239
  • 9780140435238
  • Thomas Hardy
  • 30 March 2006
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 512
  • New Ed
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