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Desperate Remedies
Publisher : Tinsley brothers
Published Year:1871
Author: Thomas Hardy
Category : Literature and Fiction,
Language: English
No of Pages:324
Country: United Kingdom

 

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literature

 

Summary

This brilliant but neglected novel - the first that Hardy ever published - not only rivals the detective fiction of Wilkie Collins but bears the undoubted imprint of the mature Hardy

 

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It is a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise, and moral obliquity', in which Cytherea Graye, beloved by a young architect, Edward Springrove, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry.