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Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy

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Desperate Remedies
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Publisher: ManyBooks
ISBN/ASIN: 0140435573

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A tale of mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity. Blackmail, murder and romance are among the ingredients of Hardy's first published novel, and in it he draws blithely on the 'sensation novel' perfected by Wilkie Collins.

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