Desperate Remedies - Softcover

Hardy, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1478186208 ISBN 13: 9781478186205

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

One of Hardy's earliest works, 'Desperate Remedies' is a psychologically probing gothic detective novel that will appeal to fans of Wilkie Collins and other classic Victorian mystery writers.

About this title

Book Description:

Desperate Remedies (1871) is the first volume in The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy. This critical edition of Hardy's first published novel offers an authoritative text and wide ranging contextual material including a comprehensive introduction supplemented by textual and explanatory notes.

About the Author:

Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist, in the tradition of George Eliot, he was also influenced both in his novels and poetry by Romanticism, especially by William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens is another important influence on Thomas Hardy. Like Dickens, he was also highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1478186208
• ISBN 13: 9781478186205
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 386