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Thomas Hardy Desperate Remedies (Paperback). Author: Thomas Hardy. Format: Paperback. Item Width: 22mm. Item Length: 129mm. Item Height: 198mm. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB. Language: English. EAN: 9780140435238. Further DetailsTitle: Desperate Remedies Condition: New Author: Thomas Hardy Contributor: Mary Rimmer (Introduction by), Mary Rimmer (Notes by), Mary Rimmer (Edited by) Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0140435239 EAN: 9780140435238 ISBN: 9780140435238 Publisher: Penguin Classics Genre: Literary Criticism Topic: Classic Fiction, Fiction Release Date: 02/26/1998 Description: 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. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 129mm Item Width: 22mm Item Weight: 351g Release Year: 1998 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
