Desperate Remedies is Thomas Hardy's first published work
Released in 1896, the story centers around young Cytherea Graye, who becomes a servant to Miss Auclyffe, a woman with a troubled past. There, she encounters Aeneas Manston, the incredibly handsome and charming steward of Miss Auclyffe. The antihero, Aeneas Manston, as physically alluring as he is evil, 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.
This compelling story raises the great questions underlying Hardy's major novels, including the injustice of the class system and the treatment of women.
Thomas Hardy (1840 1928) was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement.
In this story, the friendship between a young German girl and a mysterious French prisonero pen a world of possibilities for them both....
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Although best known for his long novels, Charles Dickens also wrote many wonderful short stories with both a supernatural and a humorous twist. This is one of his best....
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Jane Eyre, a young orphan, leads a lonely life at a boarding school until she's old enough to take a job as a governess for the wealthy and mysterious Mr. Rochester....
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He was too imperious, too masterful, too much inclined to think that all things should be made to go as he would have them.....
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The Time Machine is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 and later adapted into feature films of the same name....
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Set in the tumultuous times of the Jacobite rebellion, Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped is a classic adventure story that has enthralled generations....
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Eugenia, an American expatriate brought up in Europe, arrives in New England with her charming brother Felix, hoping to find a wealthy second husband....
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Spurred by alcohol, Michael Henchard decides to auction off his wife and baby daughter, ElizabethJane, to a sailor, Mr. Newson, for five guineas....
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In The Spoils of Poynton, Henry James created a work of exquisite ambiguity as three women fight for the allegiance of one weakwilled man....
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This is an unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story After Dark in the Playing Fields. Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure....
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One of the very best in the popular Blandings series, set in that idyllic Shropshire countryside, where the sun always shines....
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Seeking a wider horizon, Jane takes employment at Thornfield Hall, where she comes under the spell of Edward Rochester, its owner, a man of savage temperament and desperate unhappiness....
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Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell's bestknown work, is a humorous account of a nineteenthcentury English village dominated by a group of genteel but modestly circumstanced women....
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