Desperate Remedies
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Book information
Oxford University Press
UK
2009
Paperback
464
Standard
305916
978-0-19-955482-9
0-19-955482-X
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Annotation
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, thetreatment of women, probability and causality. This edition shows for the first time that the sensation novel was always Hardy's natural medium.
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