Desperate remedies
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Desperate remedies
（The Cambridge edition of the novels and stories of Thomas Hardy / Richard Nemesvari, general editor, 1）
Cambridge University Press, 2019
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Includes bibliographical references
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Description
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.
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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