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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 todeception, 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 sensationnovel was always Hardy's natural genre. It is based on the first edition text, and includes later prefaces and the Wessex Poems "dissolved" into prose.
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Desperate Remedies, Thomas Hardy
- Taal
- Jaar van publicatie
- 1990
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- Titel
- Desperate Remedies
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Thomas Hardy
- Uitgever
- Macmillan Children's Books
- Jaar van publicatie
- 1990
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 393
- ISBN10
- 0333417496
- ISBN13
- 9780333417492
- Reeks
- Beoordeling
- 3,75 van 5
- Aantekening
- 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 todeception, 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 sensationnovel was always Hardy's natural genre. It is based on the first edition text, and includes later prefaces and the Wessex Poems "dissolved" into prose.