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The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy

The Trumpet-Major. John Loveday: A Soldier in the War with Buonaparte, and Robert His Brother. Hardy distrusted nineteenth-century efforts to systematize history, and in The Trumpet-Major he presents the qualities of desire and conflicting loyalties which he saw as constantly undermining such attempts. The courtship of Anne Garland by her three suitors, the trumpet-major John Loveday, his sailor-brother Bob, and Festus Derriman of the yeomanry cavalry, takes place against the backdrop of England’s conflict with Napoleon. Yet for Hardy his characters’ loves and sorrows are as much the material of history as any record of emperors and generals.

Features;

• Folio Society Sixth Impression No. 654
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 1993
• Red Cloth Series Binding Hardback, 314 pp
• Wood-engravings by Peter Reddick.
• Size 225 x 150mm, 900g

Condition: Near Fine – Light Wear to Slipcase, Near Fine Copy

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