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  • By: Thomas Hardy
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  • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Summary

Against the larger-than-life backdrop of England's conflict with Napoleon, young Anne Garland is courted by three suitors: the trumpet-major John Loveday, his sailor-brother Bob, and Festus Derriman of the yeomanry cavalry.

For Hardy, the loves and sorrows of ordinary characters are as much the material of history as any record of emperors and generals. The present tale is founded largely on testimony; the external incidents of the plot reproduce the recollections of elders known to Hardy in his childhood. If wholly transcribed, their recollections would have filled a volume thrice the length of The Trumpet-Major.

Instead, Hardy offers a complex weave of historical fact and fiction, a genre of his own that explores the subversive effects of ordinary human desires on systematized versions of history.
©2009 Thomas Hardy (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Classics Historical Fiction
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The Trumpet Major

I enjoyed this book with all it's clever twists, turns and tension. The story end is not what I expected.

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Poor novel

Not Hardy's finest hour, nor Simon Vances' for that matter. Poor overall as a novel.

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