Desperate remedies
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The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with "Desperate Remedies", a 'sensation novel' in the mode of Wilkie Collins.
With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Michael Irwin, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Kent, Canterbury.
The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a 'sensation novel' in the mode of Wilkie Collins. Here was a racy specimen of the genre, replete with sudden death, dark mysteries, intriguing clues, fire and storm, flight and pursuit.
Anyone who enjoys The Woman in White is likely to enjoy Desperate Remedies. But that is only half the story. Hardy contrived also, in this unlikely context, to give a first airing to various of the ideas and technical experiments which were to characterise his later fiction. The result is an exhilaratingly uneven work: at any point in the narrative some brilliant passage of description or metaphor may burst out like a firework. Desperate Remedies can be relished both for what it is and for what it promises.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 augustus 2010
Aantal pagina's: 368
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Thomas Hardy
Hoofdredacteur: Dr Keith Carabine
Hoofduitgeverij: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 126 mm
Product hoogte: 24 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 112 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 23 mm
Verpakking lengte: 195 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 418 g
EAN: 9781840226348