When hearts are trumps (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Literary Drama of Love, Betrayal, and Connection in the Fractured Modern CityBy Tom Hall
Length1h 35m
About this audiobook
Tom Hall's *When Hearts Are Trumps* presents the language of the card table as a governing metaphor for emotional risk, social calculation, and romantic allegiance. Its title signals a work in which "winning" and "losing" are never merely recreational terms: the heart becomes both a suit and an ethical claim. Hall's appeal lies in the conventions of popular romance—suspense, reversals, divided loyalties, and heightened feeling—combined with the broader Victorian and Edwardian fascination with games, chance, and the instability of social identity. The result is a melodramatic yet knowing narrative, attentive to the ways affection can challenge the strategies by which people negotiate status and security. Relatively little biographical information about Tom Hall is firmly established, and the book is best approached through its literary and historical setting rather than through an elaborate authorial mythology. Hall writes within the tradition of commercially oriented fiction that sought to make moral and emotional questions accessible through vivid situations and recognizable social pressures. His choice of the trump-card motif suggests an author interested in the tension between calculated conduct and involuntary feeling—an interest that gives the novel more interpretive substance than its seemingly light romantic premise might imply. Readers of historical romance, domestic melodrama, and fiction shaped by metaphors of chance will find *When Hearts Are Trumps* an engaging and suggestive work. It rewards both straightforward reading and closer attention to its symbolic vocabulary, especially its treatment of love as a contest in which the decisive advantage may belong to sincerity rather than strategy.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Romance
Length1 hr 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 16, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1When hearts are trumps (Annotated)
26To Beauty.
2Kings & Queens & Bowers
27Dreaming of You.
3The Perfect Face.
28Please Return.
4The Moonlight Sonata.
29Almost Dying of Ennui.
5The Kiss
30Jacks from Jack.
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6The Bride.
31Hyacinths.
7A Problem.
32In The Waltz.
8To Phyllis Reading a Letter.
33She Is Mine.
9A Rose from her hair.
34Old Times.
10When I told her my Love.
35Of My Love.
11My Lady, you Blushed.
36The Farewell.
12The American Slave.
37The Last Dance.
13Sell Her,—That's Right.
38Why he asked for a Vacation.
14Time and Place.
39The Editor's Valentine.
15Blood on the Rose.
40Acting.
16In Old Madrid.
41An Apache Love-Song. [1]
17The Duel.
42The Old-fashioned Girl.
18The Shroud.
43A Retrospect.
19Love's Return.
44Hard Hit.
20One Wish.
45Rejected.
21For Me.
46Jokers
22To a Water-color.
47Her Yachting Cap.
23The Serenade.
48Theft.
24To the Rose in her hair.
49Before her Mirror.
25Her Reverie.
50At Old Point Comfort.
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