Desperate Remedies (The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stor

Desperate Remedies\nby Thomas Hardy\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Thomas Hardy\nTitle: Desperate Remedies\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary reference works\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781107036925\nISBN-10: 1107036925\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nHardy''s first published novel, Desperate Remedies (1871), a piece of sensation fiction that encompasses illegitimacy, murder, blackmail, impersonation, and bigamy, was originally published anonymously. Written while, in Hardy''s own words, he was ''feeling his way to a method'', it nonetheless contains early examples of the kinds of extreme situations and emotions that continued to play a significant role in his later plots. As part of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels an.