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Desperate Remedies
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Desperate Remedies
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Издательство: Wordsworth
Серия: Classics Год выпуска: 2010 Страниц: 340 Тип обложки: обл - мягкий переплет (крепление скрепкой или клеем) Иллюстрации: Без иллюстраций Масса: 232 г Размеры: 197x126x18 мм Наличие: Ограничено
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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