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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Here is one of Thomas Hardy''s most popular novels, soon to be released as a major motion picture in May 2015.`I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die''Independent and spirited, Bathsheba Everdene owns the hearts of three men. Striving to win her love in different ways, their relationships with Bathsheba complicate her life in buc...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.''When Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets drunk and sells his wife at a country fair, his life will never be the same. Eighteen years later, his wife and daughter return to Casterbridge to find that Henchard has become Mayor. Although he''s spent most of his life attempting to repent for his actions, he remains a...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Grace Melbury, the only daughter of a timber-merchant, arrives home in Little Hintock after an expensive education and her father looks to find a husband for her. There are two rivals for her hand: Giles Winterborne, a good-hearted yeoman and her childhood sweetheart, and Edred Fitzpiers, an ambitious young doctor of good family. Fitzpiers wins her, but the mismatch brings unhappiness not just to the young c...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.From the author of `Tess of the D''Urbervilles'', `Under the Greenwood Tree'' is a tale of love, tragedy and the changing charm of traditional village life when it is met with the cold reality of modernity.Centring on the quaint rural village of Mellstock, set deep within Hardy''s imagined and picturesque county of Wessex, the novel revolves around a double plot of the hopeful love story of Dick Dewey and Fa...

HarperCollins is pround to present its new 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 aristocra...