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The Trumpet-Major

By: Thomas Hardy
Narrated by: Nicholas Rowe
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War threatens the rich, green fields of Wessex in Hardy's historical novel The Trumpet-Major.

The Napoleonic Wars are at their height, and upheaval and uncertainty plague British soil. In the midst of it all, the impoverished beauty Anne Garland finds herself at the center of a love quadrangle. She is torn between the persistent and annoying Festus Derryman, her womanizing childhood sweetheart Bob Loveday, and the reliable and thoughtful John Loveday, the eponymous Trumpet-Major. Who will she choose?

Hardy's eighth published novel is a gentle and humorous tale about the confusion and conflict of life.

Public Domain (P)2016 Naxos AudioBooks Classics Linguistics Social Sciences

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very well read. story twists and turns and turns again.. very typical of Hardy. Well drawn characters.

Good narrator

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A book with a fascinating range of characters good and bad whose lives intertwine as history happens around them

A Superb story, twisting and turning throughout

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What you expect from Thomas Hardy, Enjoyable listen, v well read. The woman Anne I found annoying.

A good tale of romance

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Excellent Read good story and that is all I have to say Is that enough now

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Thomas Hardy must have been a woman in a previous life. He captures the unfair, unequal existences of the fairer sex so well. I love the fact that there’s never the expected ‘happy endings’ to his takes.

Unrequited Love

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