Desperate remedies
Subtitle: a novel
By: Thomas Hardy.
Edition: New Wessex ed. / introduction by C. J. P. Beatty.
Series: The New Wessex edition
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1975
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Lady's maids -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction; Wessex (England) -- Fiction
Description: Cytherea Gray, lady's maid, decides to marry the villainous Aeneas Manston after she discovers her true love, Edward Springrove, is already engaged. As soon as she is married she discovers that Aeneas's first wife is still alive. Her investigations into the situation have tragic consequences.
Notes: "Hardy's major works with year of book publication": p. 8.
Includes bibliographical references.