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Thomas Hardy: Desperate Remedies

Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'.

Cytherea 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 a 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.

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Oxford University Press, United States, 2009
416 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 019955482X

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Népszerű idézetek

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'Why are you so curious continually?' said Manston.
'Because I'm a woman and want to know.'

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He looked at her as a waiter looks at the change he brings back.

II/4. July the Twenty-First

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But what is Wisdom really? A steady handling of any means to bring about any end necessary to happiness.

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Eunice

Whoso for hours or lengthy days
Shall catch her aspect's changeful rays,
Then turn away, can none recall
Beyond a galaxy of all
In hazy portraiture;
Lit by the light of azure eyes
Like summer days by summer skies:
Her sweet transitions seem to be
A kind of pictured melody,
And not a set contour.

Nieve>!

When we survey the long race of men, it is strange and still more strange to find that they are mainly dead men, who have scarcely been otherwise.

Nieve>!

Sudden hopes that were rainbows to the sight proved but mists to the touch.


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Agatha Christie: A Murder is Announced
Agatha Christie: Ten Little Niggers
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Charlotte M. Yonge: The Heir of Redclyffe