Desperate Remedies
Part of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy
- Real Author: Thomas Hardy
- Editor: Richard Nemesvari, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario
- Date Published: August 2019
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107036925
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Hardy's first published novel, Desperate Remedies (1871), a piece of sensation fiction that encompasses illegitimacy, murder, blackmail, impersonation, and bigamy, was originally published anonymously. Written while, in Hardy's own words, he was 'feeling his way to a method', it nonetheless contains early examples of the kinds of extreme situations and emotions that continued to play a significant role in his later plots. As part of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides an authoritative text; full scholarly apparatus that allows the reader to trace Hardy's creative process; an introductory essay discussing the work's composition, publication, and critical reception; and comprehensive explanatory notes.
Read more- The first volume in The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy
- Desperate Remedies (1871), Hardy's first published novel, is a detective story with Gothic elements
- Offers an authoritative text and textual apparatus, comprehensive introduction, and explanatory notes
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- Date Published: August 2019
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107036925
- length: 626 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 38 mm
- weight: 1.03kg
- contains: 3 b/w illus.
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
General editor's preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Abbreviations
Introduction
Desperate Remedies
Editorial emendations
List of variants - accidentals
End-of-line word division
Appendix A. Hardy's prefatory notes
Appendix B. Frontispieces
Appendix C. Description of principal texts
Explanatory notes.
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