VICTORIAN TRILOGY: Desperate Remedies, The Hand of Ethelberta & A Laodicean (Illustrated Edition)
Three Romance Classics in One VolumeBy Thomas Hardy
Length48h 36m
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"Desperate Remedies" – A young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry. Cytherea loves a young architect, Edward Springrove, but Miss Adclyffe's machinations, the discovery that Edward is already engaged to a woman whom he does not love, and the urgent need to support a sick brother drive Cytherea to accept the hand of Aeneas Manston, Miss Adclyffe's illegitimate son, whose first wife is believed to have perished in a fire.
"The Hand of Ethelberta" – Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but, through her work as a governess, married well at the age of eighteen. Her husband died soon after the wedding and, now twenty-one, Ethelberta lives with her mother-in-law. In the three years that have elapsed since the death of her husband, Ethelberta has been treated to foreign travel and further privilege, making a career as a famous poet and storyteller. Beautiful, clever, and rational, she easily attracts four very persistent suitors, but is reluctant to give her much-coveted hand.
"A Laodicean" – Paula Power inherits a medieval castle from her industrialist father who has purchased it from the aristocratic De Stancy family. She employs George Somerset, a newly qualified architect from London. He shows an interest in Paula, as well as Captain De Stancy, an impoverished scion of the family. Paula is attracted to both of them for their different virtues but William Dare, an illegitimate son of Captain De Stancy and an amateur photographer, helps his father by counterfeiting a telegram and a photograph to make Somerset look bad.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth.
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GenreRomance, General Fiction
Length48 hrs 36 mins
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Publish dateDec 20, 2017
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Table of contents
1VICTORIAN TRILOGY: Desperate Remedies, The Hand of Ethelberta & A Laodicean (Illustrated Edition)
6944. Sandbourne — A Lonely Heath — The ‘Red Lion’ — The Highway
2Prefatory Note
7045. Knollsea — The Road Thence — Enckworth
31. The Events of Thirty years
7146. Enckworth (continued) — The Anglebury Highway
42. The Events of a Fortnight
7247. Enckworth and its Precincts — Melchester
53. The Events of eight Days
73Book The First: George Somerset
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64. The Events of one day
74I.
75. The Events of one day
75II.
86. The Events of Twelve Hours
76III.
97. The Events of Eighteen Days
77IV.
108. The Events of Eighteen Days
78V.
119. The Events of ten Weeks
79VI.
1210. The Events of a day and Night
80VII.
1311. The Events of five Days
81VIII.
1412. The Events of ten Months
82IX.
1513. The Events of one day
83X.
1614. The Events of five Weeks
84XI.
1715. The Events of three Weeks
85XII.
1816. The Events of one Week
86XIII.
1917. The Events of one day
87XIV.
2018. The Events of three Days
88XV.
2119. The Events of a day and Night
89Book The Second: Dare and Havill
2220. The Events of three Hours
90I.
2321. The Events of Eighteen Hours
91II.
2422. Sequel
92III.
25Preface
93IV.
261. A Street in Anglebury — A Heath Near it — Inside the ‘Red Lion’ Inn
94V.
272. Christopher’s House — Sandbourne Town — Sandbourne Moor
95VI.
283. Sandbourne Moor (continued)
96VII.
294. Sandbourne Pier — Road to Wyndway — Ball-Room in Wyndway House
97Book The Third: De Stancy
305. At the Window — The Road Home
98I.
316. The Shore by Wyndway
99II.
327. The Dining-Room of a Town House — The Butler’s Pantry
100III.
338. Christopher’s Lodgings — The Grounds About Rookington
101IV.
349. A Lady’s Drawing-Rooms — Ethelberta’s Dressing-Room
102V.
3510. Lady Petherwin’s House
103VI.
3611. Sandbourne and its Neighbourhood — Some London Streets
104VII.
3712. Arrowthorne Park and Lodge
105VIII.
3813. The Lodge (continued) — The Copse Behind
106IX.
3914. A Turnpike Road
107X.
4015. An Inner Room at the Lodge
108XI.
4116. A Large Public Hall
109Book The Fourth: Somerset, Dare and De Stancy
4217. Ethelberta’s House
110I.
4318. Near Sandbourne — London Streets — Ethelberta’s
111II.
4419. Ethelberta’s Drawing-Room
112III.
4520. The Neighbourhood of the Hall — The Road Home
113IV.
4621. A Street — Neigh’s Rooms — Christopher’s Rooms
114V.
4722. Ethelberta’s House
115Book The Fifth: De Stancy and Paula
4823. Ethelberta’s House (continued)
116I.
4924. Ethelberta’s House (continued) — The British Museum
117II.
5025. The Royal Academy — The Farnfield Estate
118III.
5126. Ethelberta’s Drawing-Room
119IV.
5227. Mrs. Belmaine’s — Cripplegate Church
120V.
5328. Ethelberta’s — Mr. Chickerel’s Room
121VI.
5429. Ethelberta’s Dressing-Room — Mr. Doncastle’s House
122VII.
5530. On the Housetop
123VIII.
5631. Knollsea — A Lofty Down — A Ruined Castle
124IX.
5732. A Room in Enckworth Court
125X.
5833. The English Channel — Normandy
126XI.
5934. The Hotel Beau Sejour and Spots Near it
127XII.
6035. The Hotel (continued), and the Quay in Front
128XIII.
6136. The House in Town
129XIV.
6237. Knollsea — An Ornamental Villa
130Book The Sixth: Paula
6338. Enckworth Court
131I.
6439. Knollsea — Melchester
132II.
6540. Melchester (continued)
133III.
6641. Workshops — An Inn — The Street
134IV.
6742. The Doncastles’ Residence, and Outside the Same
135V.
6843. The Railway — The Sea — The Shore Beyond
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