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Classic Love Stories

Desperate Remedies

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    Thomas Hardy's Desperate Remedies is a classic romance novel. Readers will find themes of young women and lady's maids.

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    About Desperate Remedies

    "Desperate Remedies" by Thomas Hardy is a sensation novel published in 1871. Cytherea Graye, forced into service by poverty, must navigate forbidden love, dark family secrets, and dangerous deceptions. When she reluctantly marries the mysterious Aeneas Manston after his wife reportedly dies in a fire, shocking revelations emerge about murder, impersonation, and blackmail. Hardy's first published novel weaves gothic elements with Victorian intrigue, building to a climactic confrontation that will determine whether love can survive desperate circumstances.
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    Themes, setting & tropes

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    • Young women
    • Love stories
    • Wessex, England
    • Lady's maids

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    Who wrote Desperate Remedies?

    Desperate Remedies was written by Thomas Hardy.

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    It is usually shelved as Classic Love Stories.

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    Yes. It is in the public domain in the United States and can be read free on Project Gutenberg in EPUB, Kindle and HTML formats.

    What books are similar to Desperate Remedies?

    Readers who like it often enjoy Middlemarch, Dainty's Cruel Rivals; Or, The Fatal Birthday and Emma.

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