Desperate Remedies Oxford World´s Classics
Desperate Remedies Oxford World´s Classics Hardy's first published work, Desperate Remedies moves the sensation novel into new territory. When he cannot seduce her, Manston resorts to deception,…
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Desperate Remedies Oxford World´s Classics
Hardy's first published work, Desperate Remedies moves the sensation novel into new territory. When he cannot seduce her, Manston resorts to deception, blackmail, bigamy, murder, and rape. 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.
This edition shows for the first time that the sensation novel was always Hardy's natural genre. 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. It is based on the first edition text, and includes later prefaces and the Wessex Poems "dissolved" into prose.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from
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