Harper Collins 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 & seen & thought I feel what a nothing I am!' Challenging the hypocrisy & 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 & exposes the double standards of the world that she inhabits with searing pathos & heart-rending sentiment. ...

This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " Tess of the D' Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy. "I would be content ay glad to live with you as your servant if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you & get glimpses of you & think of you as mine...I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth to meet you my own dear! Come to me
- come to me & save me from what threatens me!" When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D' Urbervilles & seek a portion of their family fortune meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man Angel Clare seems to offer her love & salvation but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future. With its sensitive depiction of the wronged Tess & powerful criticism of social convention " Tess of the D' Urbervilles" is one of the most moving & poetic of Hardy's novels. " The Penguin English Library"
- 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War."

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Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D' Urbevilles & meeting her cousin" Alec proves to be her downfall. When Angel Clare offers her love & salvation she must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future." ...

By employing the same basic methodologies used to establish the currently accepted chronology it has been possible for a group of young archaeologists including David Rohl to create a New Chronology which resolves many of the problems permeating ancient world studies. In particular one model has been developed which has major implications for Old Testament research. Through the revision of the master chronology of ancient Egypt they have unlocked the key to biblical history
- the epic events of the Bible really did happen as recorded in the Books of Genesis Exodus Judges Samuel Kings & Chronicles
- the problem was that we had previously been looking for them in completely the wrong place in time. Many of the conundrums of the past are explained & legendary figures such as Joseph Moses David & Solomon find their true political setting. Exodus & Conquest will be restored to history & the magic of legend will begin to make its great comeback

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The perfect gift book for cat lovers everywhere showing how to measure your cats intelligence in a series of easy & fun tests. How clever is your cat? Can your cat: * Make sounds upon request? * Predict a change in the weather? Or is your cat the type who * Falls of ledges while sleeping? * Continually runs into walls or doors? You can find out how smart your cat really is by giving him or her the Cat IQ Test
- a simple four-part intelligence test. By observation & by using everyday household items you will be able to measure your cats co-ordination communication social & reasoning powers. Also
Includes:: * Suggestions on how to improve your cats IQ. * Comparative scores of other cats by age sex & type. * A Certificate of Merit to be filled in & proudly displayed on completion of the Cat IQ Test.

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Vocabulary tests to accompany the popular English Vocabulary in Use Upper-intermediate Third edition. Test Your English Vocabulary in Use Upper-intermediate Second edition contains 100 easy-to-use practice vocabulary tests with a clear marking system on each page so that progress can be easily checked. The book can be used on its own for self-study or in the classroom or to reinforce the vocabulary covered in English Vocabulary in Use Upper-intermediate Third edition available separately. ...

Test Your Professional English: Hotel & Catering is organized into eight sections & covers words & expressions in areas such as hotel services housekeeping food & drink health & safety financial issues sales & marketing human resources & management. ...

Troy Phelen is a self-made billionaire one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric reclusive confined to a wheelchair & looking for a way to die. Nate O' Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard too fast for too long. Emerging from his fourth stay in rehab he knows returning to the real world is always difficult but this time it's going to be murder. Rachel Lane is a young woman who chose to give her life to God who walked away from the modern world with all its strivings & trappings & encumbrances & went to live & work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the deepest jungles of Brazil. In a story that mixes legal suspense with a remarkable adventure their lives are forever altered by the startling secret of The Testament. ...

Somewhere in Germany was hidden a manuscript that would rock Western Europe to its foundations: the testament of Caspar Schulz. Once a prominent Nazi & long believed to be dead Schultz could soon be hailed as the author of the most shattering confessions ever to make print. Paul Chavasse British Intelligence's toughest trouble-shooter was hired to track the former Nazi down & secure the manuscript. But he soon discovered that he wasn't the only one who wanted to get his hands on the book. & some of his rivals would go to any lengths
- including murder
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In her bestselling first volume of autobiography Testament of Youth Vera Brittain passionately recorded the agonising years of the First World War lamenting the destruction of a generation which for her included those she most dearly loved
- her lover her brother her closest friends. In Testament of Friendship Brittain tells the story of the woman who helped her survive those tragic years
- the writer Winifred Holtby. They met at Somerville College Oxford immediately after the war & their friendship continued through Veras marriage & their separate but parallel writing careers until Winifreds untimely death at the age of thirty-seven. When she died her fame as a writer was about to reach its peak with the publication of her greatest novel South Riding. A moving record of a friendship between two women of courage determination & intelligence & a wonderful portrait of a lifelong love Testament of Friendship now takes its rightful place as a Virago Modern Classic with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge.

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