Desperate Remedies

Desperate Remedies-Thomas Hardy

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 be relished both for what it is

and for what it promises.

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