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HarperCollins is pround to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I am!'Challenging the hypocrisy and social conventions of the rural Victorian world, Tess of the D'Urbervilles follows the story of Tess Durbeyfield as she attempts to escape the poverty of her background, seeking wealth by claiming connection with the aristocratic D'Urberville family. It is through Tess's relationships with two very different men that Hardy tells the story of his tragic heroine, and exposes the double standards of the world that she inhabits with searing pathos and heart-rending sentiment.

Olivia yearned for love, happiness and the stability of family life. She'd thought she'd found it all in her husband, Caspar, but unable to let go of her troubled childhood, she'd put at risk the one thing she valued most ? her marriage.Now, separated and at her wits' end coping with being a single mother, Olivia was desperate for support. The offer of help, when it came was from an unexpected and unwanted source ? her father, David Crighton. But could she afford to turn it down? With others around her finding happiness, was it time for Olivia to be reconciled with her past? Only then could she and Caspar possibly look for a fresh start of their own . . .