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Its protagonist, jude fawley, is a workingclass young man, a stonemason, who dreams of becoming a scholar. I love thomas hardy books they take you back to a gentle time with good country stories, in the old dialects. He trained as an architect and worked in london and dorset for ten years. Desperate remedies was thomas hardys first novel to be published 1871 and, interestingly, is rather different to his later work as this would be described as more of a sensation novel, like those of the excellent wilkie collins. Book from the collections of university of california language english. To court commercial success he cast his second work in a genre that was very popular at that time the sensation novel. Some critics cite quasigothic elements in desperate remedies. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading desperate remedies. Hardy has woven an intricate mystery featuring fascinating and sympathetic characters.
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