 |
 |
Sign in/joinLanguage: English [ others ]
Over forty million books on members' bookshelves.
|
Loading... The Trumpet-Majorby Thomas Hardy
LibraryThing recommendationsMember recommendationsLoading...
won't like
will probably not like
will probably like
will like
will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. On of the earliest set of Hardy novels. Taking place when Napoleon was threatening the English south coast. (  )charlie68 | Jun 4, 2009 |   The job of the Trumpet Major in British Army Horse regiments is to supervise the training and deployment of trumpeters who blow daily duty and ceremonial calls. The heroine of this novel, Ann Garland, is pursued by 3 suitors, John Loveday, the trumpet major, an honest and devoted soldier, his brother Bob, a seaman and womaniser, and Festus Derriman, the cowardly son of a local aristocrat. The setting is the Napoleonic wars, and it seems Miss Garland has a penchant for men in uniform. Of the two brothers, John fights with Wellington at Waterloo, and Bob serves with Nelson at Trafalgar. Unlike most Hardy novels, most of the characters live happy and fulfilled lives. keylawk | May 28, 2007 | 1  I just love Hardy's English. ( )Ramoo2 | Dec 31, 1969 | 0.042 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0140435409, Paperback)Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements. In The Trumpet Major, the tale of a woman courted by three competing suitors during the Napoleonic wars, he explores the subversive effects of ordinary human desire and conflicting loyalties on systematized versions of history. This edition restores Hardy's original punctuation and removes the bowdlerisms forced upon the text on its initial publication.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:03 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
Abebooks |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
