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020			_a9780140435238
082			_a823.8 _bHAR
100			_aHardy, Thomas
245			_aDesperate remedies
260			_bPenguin Classics, _aNew York : _c1998.
300			_axlviii,460 p. ; _c20 cm.
365			_b899.00 _c₹ _d01
490			_aPenguin Classics
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aCytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative steward Manston. Blackmail, murder and romance are among the ingredients of Hardy's first published novel, and in it he draws blithely on the 'sensation novel' perfected by Wilkie Collins. Several perceptive critics praised the author as novelist with a future when Desperate Remedies appeared anonymously in 1871. In its depiction of country life and insight into psychology and sexuality it already bears the unmistakable imprint of Hardy's genius. When Cytherea discovers that the man she loves is already engaged to his cousin, she is influenced by her employer's steward, and blackmail, murder, and romance ensue.
650			_aCousins ​​Fiction
650			_aEngland Wessex
650			_a19th Century English Fiction
650			_aExtortion Fiction
650			_aYoung Women Novels
650			_aTriangles
700			_a Rimmer, Mary _eed.
942			_2ddc _cBK