# Desperate Remedies

By Thomas Hardy.

"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. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: Young women -- Fiction; Love stories; Wessex (England) -- Fiction; Lady's maids -- Fiction

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