Desperate Remedies
- ISBN-10
- 184022634X
- ISBN-13
- 9781840226348
- Series
- Desperate Remedies
- Category
- Classical fiction
- Pages
- 340
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Author
- Thomas Hardy
Description
The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with "Desperate Remedies," a 'sensation novel' in the mode of Wilkie Collins.
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