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Desperate Remedies (Paperback)
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Desperate Remedies (Paperback)
Series: Wordsworth Classics
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Loot Price R120
Discovery Miles 1 200
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With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Michael Irwin,
Emeritus Professor of English, University of Kent, Canterbury. The
young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with
literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally
succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a 'sensation novel' in the mode
of Wilkie Collins. Here was a racy specimen of the genre, replete
with sudden death, dark mysteries, intriguing clues, fire and
storm, flight and pursuit. Anyone who enjoys The Woman in White is
likely to enjoy Desperate Remedies. But that is only half the
story. Hardy contrived also, in this unlikely context, to give a
first airing to various of the ideas and technical experiments
which were to characterise his later fiction. The result is an
exhilaratingly uneven work: at any point in the narrative some
brilliant passage of description or metaphor may burst out like a
firework. Desperate Remedies can be relished both for what it is
and for what it promises.
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