The Trumpet-Major Illustrated

By: Hardy, Thomas

he Trumpet-Major is a novel by Thomas Hardy published in 1880, and his only historical novel. It concerns the heroine, Anne Garland, being pursued by three suitors: John Loveday, the eponymous trumpet major in a British regiment, honest and loyal; his brother Bob, a flighty sailor; and Festus Derriman, the cowardly nephew of the local squire. Unusually for a Hardy novel, the ending is not entirely tragic; however, there remains an ominous element in the probable fate of one of the main characters.The novel is set in Weymouth during the Napoleonic wars; 1] the town was then anxious about the possibility of invasion by Napoleon. 2] Of the two brothers, John fights with Wellington in the Peninsular War, and Bob serves with Nelson at Trafalgar. The Napoleonic Wars was a setting that Hardy would use again in his play, The Dynasts, and it borrows from the same source material. 3]Edward Neill has called the novel an attempt to repeat the success of his earlier work Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), after the limited success of his intervening works

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08N3MYRT8
• ISBN13: 9798562733900
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"