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       Thomas Hardy

      Desperate Remedies, The Hand of Ethelberta & A Laodicean: Complete Illustrated Trilogy

      Three Romance Classics in One Volume Illustrator: George Du Maurier

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      Table of Contents

       Desperate Remedies

       The Hand of Ethelberta

       A Laodicean

      Desperate Remedies

      Thomas Hardy

       Table of Contents

       Table of Contents

       Prefatory Note

       1. The Events of Thirty years

       2. The Events of a Fortnight

       3. The Events of eight Days

       4. The Events of one day

       5. The Events of one day

       6. The Events of Twelve Hours

       7. The Events of Eighteen Days

       8. The Events of Eighteen Days

       9. The Events of ten Weeks

       10. The Events of a day and Night

       11. The Events of five Days

       12. The Events of ten Months

       13. The Events of one day

       14. The Events of five Weeks

       15. The Events of three Weeks

       16. The Events of one Week

       17. The Events of one day

       18. The Events of three Days

       19. The Events of a day and Night

       20. The Events of three Hours

       21. The Events of Eighteen Hours

       22. Sequel

      Prefatory Note

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      The following story, the first published by the author, was written nineteen years ago, at a time when he was feeling his way to a method. The principles observed in its composition are, no doubt, too exclusively those in which mystery, entanglement, surprise, and moral obliquity are depended on for exciting interest; but some of the scenes, and at least one of the characters, have been deemed not unworthy of a little longer preservation; and as they could hardly be reproduced in a fragmentary form the novel is reissued complete — the more readily that it has for some considerable time been reprinted and widely circulated in America. January 1889.

      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 under which they appear elsewhere, for the satisfaction of any reader who may care for consistency in such matters.

      This is the only material change; for, as it happened that certain characteristics which provoked most discussion in my latest story were present in this my first — published in 1871, when there was no French name for them it has seemed best to let them stand unaltered.

      T.H. February 1896.

      1. The Events of Thirty years

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      1. December and January, 1835–36

      In the long and intricately inwrought chain of circumstance which renders worthy of record some experiences of Cytherea Graye, Edward Springrove, and others, the first event directly influencing the issue was СКАЧАТЬ