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The Trumpet-Major

The Trumpet-Major

Hardy, Thomas

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ISBN10: 1539517632
ISBN13: 9781539517634
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 14 2016
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Thomas Hardy's novel, The Trumpet-Major, published in 1880, is a great favourite. It's certainly not one of his masterpiece tragedies (Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure), but neither is the book as light as his rural humorous romance Under The Greenwood Tree. The Trumpet-Major is a curious novel for the manner in which Hardy slips the lives of his characters into historic events-he includes the Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson, and the ship the Victory in this story. This puts a date on the action, but for the rest of the novel, we are on fairly familiar ground as Hardy explores that ever fertile yet oddly complicated territory surrounding the choices and motivations of women. Hardy sets the romance and courtship of a young Wessex woman against the upheaval and uncertainty of impending war.

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