21.42
Książki
Wordsworth
Desperate Remedies
Wydawnictwo:
Wordsworth
Oprawa: Miękka
Opis
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. Here was a racy specimen of the genre, replete with sudden death, dark mysteries, intriguing clues, fire and storm, flight and pursuit.Anyone who enjoys The Woman in White is likely to enjoy Desperate Remedies. But that is only half the story. Hardy contrived also, in this unlikely context, to give a first airing to various of the ideas and technical experiments which were to characterise his later fiction. The result is an exhilaratingly uneven work: at any point in the narrative some brilliant passage of description or metaphor may burst out like a firework. Desperate Remedies can
Szczegóły
Rok wydania
2010
Oprawa
Miękka
Ilość stron
340
Format
12.5x20.0cm
Języki
angielski
ISBN
9781840226348
Rodzaj
Książka
Stan
Nowy
EAN
9781840226348
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