Hardy's first published work, Desperate Remedies moves the sensation
novel into new territory. The anti-hero, Aeneas Manston, as
physically alluring as he is evil, even fascinates the innocent
Cytherea, though she is in love with another man. When he cannot
seduce her, Manston resorts to deception, blackmail, bigamy, murder,
and rape. Yet this compelling story also raises the great questions
underlying Hardy's major novels, which relate to the injustice of the
class system, the treatment of women, probability and causality. This
edition shows for the first time that the sensation novel was always
Hardy's natural genre. It is based on the first edition text, and
includes later prefaces and the Wessex Poems "dissolved" into prose.
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