Desperate Remedies

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by William Powell Frith, John Constable and Johannes Bosboom. A young woman with no money takes a post as a lady's maid to a wealthy spinster, and finds that the household's secrets involve the architect she once loved. Hardy published it anonymously at thirty-one, after paying his own guarantee against loss, and wrote it to a publisher's brief: gi...