English Lesson Reading Book From Early 80S

[PaulTrems]

In the early 80s, I was about 13 or 14 and we read a book in our English lesson that I cannot remember the name of and only part of the story. If I remember rightly, a man had something injected into him which I think came from a dead old persons brain that made him think he was in that persons body. Then he would walk around thinking he was in the past. I thought it was a Thomas Hardy book but none of the titles looks familiar nor any of the synopsis. Been googling nineteenth century science fiction but no joy. Any ideas anyone?

[Tilly2]

Definitely not Thomas Hardy. Try John Wyndham

[rowanwitch]

Sounds more like HG Wells or Jules Verne type of thing...very early and very dark.