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Desperate remedies

The anti-hero, Aeneas Manston, as physically alluring as he is evil, fascinates the innocent Cytherea, though she is in love with another man. When he cannot seduce her, Manston resorts to deception and blackmail, and ever more desperate measures to achieve his ends
Print Book, English, 2003
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003
Fiction
xlvi, 415 pages ; 20 cm.
9780192840707, 9780199554829, 0192840703, 019955482X
52485881
Desperate Remedies
Hardy's Poems 'dissolved into' Desperate Remedies
Later Prefaces to the Novel