{"product_id":"desperate-remedies-9781107036925","title":"Desperate Remedies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardy''s first published novel, Desperate Remedies (1871), a piece of sensation fiction that encompasses illegitimacy, murder, blackmail, impersonation, and bigamy, was originally published anonymously. Written while, in Hardy''s own words, he was ''feeling his way to a method'', it nonetheless contains early examples of the kinds of extreme situations and emotions that continued to play a significant role in his later plots. As part of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides an authoritative text; full scholarly apparatus that allows the reader to trace Hardy''s creative process; an introductory essay discussing the work''s composition, publication, and critical reception; and comprehensive explanatory notes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; Desperate Remedies; Editorial emendations; List of variants - accidentals; End-of-line word division; Appendix A. Hardy's prefatory notes; Appendix B. Frontispieces; Appendix C. Description of principal texts; Explanatory notes.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53186696413527,"sku":"9781107036925","price":99.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/desperate-remedies-9781107036925","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}