Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Although a chance meeting between Tess and Angel Clare reveals an immediate attraction, Tess is thrown into the path of Alec d'Urberville. Seeking to escape the consequences, she again meets Angel and they fall in love. But she feels compelled to reveal her past and he leaves her, too late coming to his senses. Tess takes matters into her own hands and the result is death and an end to a love that, Tess claims, could never last.