Desperate RemediesHardy's first published work, Desperate Remedies moves the sensation novel into new territory. 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. When he cannot seduce her, Manston resorts todeception, 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 first time that the sensationnovel was always Hardy's natural genre. It is based on the first edition text, and includes later prefaces and the Wessex Poems "dissolved" into prose. |
Contents
PREFATORY NOTE | 7 |
I THE EVENTS OF THIRTY YEARS | 9 |
II THE EVENTS OF A FORTNIGHT | 28 |
III THE EVENTS OF EIGHT DAYS | 47 |
IV THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY | 73 |
V THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY | 81 |
VI THE EVENTS OF TWELVE HOURS | 108 |
VII THE EVENTS OF EIGHTEEN DAYS | 137 |
XII THE EVENTS OF TEN MONTHS | 292 |
XIII THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY | 325 |
XIV THE EVENTS OF FIVE WEEKS | 379 |
XV THE EVENTS OF THREE WEEKS | 393 |
XVI THE EVENTS OF ONE WEEK | 409 |
XVII THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY | 430 |
XVIII THE EVENTS OF THREE DAYS | 446 |
XIX THE EVENTS OF A DAY AND NIGHT | 468 |
VIII THE EVENTS OF EIGHTEEN DAYS | 158 |
IX THE EVENTS OF TEN WEEKS | 197 |
X THE EVENTS OF A DAY AND NIGHT | 228 |
XI THE EVENTS OF FIVE DAYS | 259 |
XX THE EVENTS OF THREE HOURS | 508 |
XXI THE EVENTS OF EIGHTEEN HOURS SEQUEL | 540 |
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