Cover of Desperate Remedies
Free public-domain book

Desperate Remedies

by Thomas Hardy
Author: Thomas Hardy Language: English Project Gutenberg #3044
🎧 Read & Listen with DevDocu AI

About this book

"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. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Topics

Lady's maids -- Fiction Love stories Wessex (England) -- Fiction Young women -- Fiction

This page provides a reading and listening entry point for Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy using DevDocu AI. Book metadata is based on Project Gutenberg records.