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| | Powell's Books - Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | 'She was swayed into emotional opinions concerning the strange man before her; new impulses of thought...entered into her with a gnawing thrill.' 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, flmail, bigamy, murder, and rape. |
 | | She is the General Editor of the Authors in Context series in OWC, and author of the volume on Thomas Hardy. |
| www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=91-1417999101-0 (221 words) |
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