Desperate Remedies
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hardy, Thomas / Ingham, Patricia, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Hardy's ong>firstong> published work, Desperate Remedies moves the sensation novel into new territory. The anti-hero, Aeneas ong>Manong>ston, as physically alluring as he is evil, even fascinates the innocent Cytherea, though she is in love with another ong>manong>. When he cannot seduce her, ong>Manong>ston 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 ong>firstong> time that the sensation novel was always Hardy's natural genre. It is based on the ong>firstong> edition text, and includes later prefaces and the Wessex Poems "dissolved" into prose.