Logo

Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy

Large book cover: Desperate Remedies

Desperate Remedies
by

Publisher: ManyBooks
ISBN/ASIN: 0140435573

Description:
A tale of mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity. 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.

Home page url

Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(multiple formats)

Similar books

Book cover: The Trumpet-MajorThe Trumpet-Major
by - ManyBooks
Anne Garland is pursued by three suitors: John Loveday, the trumpet major in a British regiment, honest and loyal; his brother Bob, a flighty sailor; and Festus Derriman, the cowardly nephew of the local squire. The setting is the Napoleonic wars.
(8505 views)
Book cover: A Pair of Blue EyesA Pair of Blue Eyes
by - William Tinsley
Blue-eyed Elfride has little experience of the world beyond, and becomes entangled with two men. Written at a crucial time in Hardy's life, this book expresses more directly than any of his novels the events that made him the writer he was.
(10520 views)
Book cover: Far from the Madding CrowdFar from the Madding Crowd
by
The first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. The story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility.
(9779 views)
Book cover: Tess of the d'UrbervillesTess of the d'Urbervilles
by - Nelson Doubleday
Hardy's simple girl Tess becomes a tragic heroine going from innocent girl at the beginning to pure woman whose life is shaped by events beyond her control. Perhaps the finest of the novels by Thomas Hardy and a masterpiece of tragic fiction.
(14720 views)