Desperate Remedies Paperback / softback
by Thomas Hardy
Edited by Patricia (, Senior Research Fellow and Reader in English at St Anne's College, Oxford) Ingham
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
Paperback / softback
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'She was swayed into emotional opinions concerning the strange man before her; new impulses of thought...entered into her with a gnawing thrill.'Hardy's first published work, Desperate Remedies moves the sensation novel into new territory.
The anti-hero, Aeneas Manston, as physically alluring as he is evil, even fascinates the innocent Cytherea, though she is in love with another man.
When he cannot seduce her, Manston resorts to deception, blackmail, bigamy, murder, and rape.
Yet this compelling story also raises the great questions underlying Hardy's major novels, which relate to the injustice of the class system, the treatment of women, probability and causality.
This edition shows for the first time that the sensation novel was always Hardy's natural medium. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
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- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:26/02/2009
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- ISBN:9780199554829
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:464 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:26/02/2009
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- ISBN:9780199554829
