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.
DESPERATE REMEDIES IS THE SECOND NOVEL BY THOMAS HARDY, ALBEIT THE FIRST TO BE PUBLISHED.
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Desperate Remedies brings together a galaxy of mind doctors working in and out of institutional settings: psychologists and psychoanalysts, neuroscientists, and cognitive behavioral therapists, social reformers and advocates of mental ...
It relates the story of Cytherea, a maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe, and the man she loves, Edward Springrove.
Described by Hardy as a tale of "mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity", his first published novel violated the literary decorum of its day with blackmail, murder, and romance. It...
An eloquent, meticulously documented, clear-eyed call for change' Dirk Wittenborn In this masterful work, Andrew Scull, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry, sheds light on its troubled history For more than two ...
In the novel's climax, Manston attempts to kidnap Cytherea and flee, but is stopped by Edward; he later commits suicide in his cell, and Cytherea and Edward marry.
Desperate Remedies: The Tragedy of Santa Maria, California : a Toxic Waste Landfill, Government Incompetence, and the Inevitable Poisoning of...
Copyright © 2022 by Andrew Scull Published in the United Kingdom as Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd., a Penguin Random House Company.
Deeply researched and lucidly conveyed, Desperate Remedies masterfully illustrates the assumptions and theory behind the therapy, providing a definitive new account of psychiatry's and society's battle with mental illness.
The anti-hero, Aeneas Manston, as physically alluring as he is evil, fascinates the innocent Cytherea, though she is in love with another man.
Desperate Remedies: A Novel
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Desperate Remedies: A Novel
To the foregoing note I have only to add that, in the present edition of 'Desperate Remedies, ' some Wessex towns and other places that are common to the scenes of several of these stories have been called for the first time by the names ...
In Desperate Remedies a young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry.
It relates the story of Cytherea, a maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe, and the man she loves, Edward Springrove.
Thomas Hardy Mary Rimmer. APPENDIX IV. Desperate. Remedies. and. The. Golden. Treasury. Like manyyoung writers ofhis time,Hardy was deeply influenced by F. T. Palgrave's TheGolden Treasuryof the ... Desperate Remedies and The Golden Treasury.