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"The Trumpet-Major", first published in 1880, is Thomas Hardy's seventh novel — a historical and pastoral romance set in and around the seaside resort of Budmouth (Weymouth) during the Napoleonic Wars.
Our heroine, a graceful and charming young woman, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments preparing for an expected invasion brings colour and chaos to the county.
Anne is pursued by three suitors: John Loveday, the trumpet-major in a British regiment, honest and loyal; his brother Robert, a merchant seaman and womaniser, and Festus Derriman, the cowardly son of the local squire.
Set at the time of the Napoleonic wars, this is the author's only historical novel, and unusually for Hardy's books, some of the characters live happily ever after.
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Rating★★★★ 3.8 (5.2K)
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GenreRomance, Action and Adventure, Fantasy
Length12 hrs 40 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 3, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
2I. What Was Seen From the Window Overlooking the Down
3II. Somebody Knocks and Comes In
4III. The Mill Becomes an Important Centre of Operations
5IV. Who Were Present at the Miller's Little Entertainment
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6V. The Song and the Stranger
7VI. Old Mr. Derriman of Oxwell Hall
8VII. How They Talked in the Pastures
9VIII. Anne Makes a Circuit of the Camp
10IX. Anne is Kindly Fetched by the Trumpet-major
11X. The Match-making Virtues of a Double Garden
12XI. Our People Are Affected by the Presence of Royalty
13XII. How Everybody Great and Small Climbed to the Top of the Downs
14XIII. The Conversation in the Crowd
15XIV. Later in the Evening of the Same Day
16XV. 'Captain' Bob Loveday of the Merchant Service
17XVI. They Make Ready for the Illustrious Stranger
18XVII. Two Fainting Fits and a Bewilderment
19XVIII. The Night After the Arrival
20XIX. Miss Johnson's Behaviour Causes No Little Surprise
21XX. How They Lessened the Effect of the Calamity
22XXI. 'Upon the Hill He Turned'
23XXII. The Two Households United
24XXIII. Military Preparations on an Extended Scale
25XXIV. A Letter, a Visitor, and a Tin Box
26XXV. Festus Shows His Love
27XXVI. The Alarm
28XXVII. Danger to Anne
29XXVIII. Anne Does Wonders
30XXIX. A Dissembler
31XXX. At the Theatre Royal
32XXXI. Midnight Visitors
33XXXII. Deliverance
34XXXIII. A Discovery Turns the Scale
35XXXIV. A Speck on the Sea
36XXXV. A Sailor Enters
37XXXVI. Derriman Sees Chances
38XXXVII. Reaction
39XXXVIII. A Delicate Situation
40XXXIX. Bob Loveday Struts Up and Down
41XL. A Call on Business
42XLI. John Marches Into the Night
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