Desperate Remedies (1871) NOVEL by: Thomas Hardy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781542739825)

In Desperate Remedies a young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry. Cytherea loves a young architect, Edward Springrove, but Miss Adclyffe's machinations, the discovery that Edward is already engaged to a woman whom he does not love, and the urgent need to support a sick brother drive Cytherea to accept the hand of Aeneas Manston, Miss Adclyffe's illegitimate son, whose first wife is believed to have perished in a fire; however, their marriage is almost immediately nullified when it emerges that his first wife had left the inn before it caught fire. Manston's wife, apparently, returns to live with him, but Cytherea, her brother, the local rector, and Edward come to suspect that the woman claiming to be Mrs. Manston is an impostor.

Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN-10: 1542739829
ISBN-13: 9781542739825
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 01/25/2017
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.51d