Desperate Remedies
Desperate Remedies
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Aeneas Manston, as physically alluring as he is evil, fascinates the innocent Cytherea, even though she is in love with another man. When he cannot seduce her, Manston resorts to deception, blackmail, bigamy, murder and rape.
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Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy
'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.| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9780192840707 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192840703 |
| Titre | Desperate Remedies |
| Auteur | Thomas Hardy |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | Oxford University Press |
| Année de publication | 2003-10-01 |
| Nombre de pages | 462 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |