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The Trumpet-Major

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Chapter 00 - Preface
4:14
Chapter 01 - What Was Seen From the Window Overlooking the Down
20:51
Chapter 02 - Somebody Knocks and Comes In
18:06
Chapter 03 - The Mill Becomes an Important Centre of Operations
17:28
Chapter 04 - Who Were Present at the Miller's Little Entertainment
7:17
Chapter 05 - The Song and the Stranger
16:52
Chapter 06 - Old Mr. Derriman of Oxwell Hall
24:00
Chapter 07 - How They Talked in the Pastures
8:13
Chapter 08 - Anne Makes a Circuit of the the Camp
15:13
Chapter 09 - Anne is Kindly Fetched by the Trumpet-Major
28:19
Chapter 10 - The Matchmaking Virtues of a Double Garden
15:42
Chapter 11 - Our People Are Affected by the Presence of Royalty
20:56
Chapter 12 - How Everybody Great and Small Climbed...
14:48
Chapter 13 - The Conversation in the Crowd
12:20
Chapter 14 - Later in the Eve. of the Same Day
9:15
Chapter 15 - 'Captain' Bob Loveday of the Merchant Service
22:34
Chapter 16 - They Make Ready for the Illustrious Stranger
22:52
Chapter 17 - Two Fainting Fits and a Bewilderment
15:35
Chapter 18 - The Night After the Arrival
13:21
Chapter 19 - Miss Johnson's Behaviour Causes No Little Surprise
19:05
Chapter 20 - How They Lessened the Effect of the Calamity
19:06
Chapter 21 - 'Upon the Hill He Turned'
12:29
Chapter 22 - The Two Households United
23:18
Chapter 23 - Military Preparations on an Extended Scale
21:28
Chapter 24 - A Letter, A Visitor and a Tin Box
10:09
Chapter 25 - Festus Shows His Love
12:56
Chapter 26 - The Alarm
26:27
Chapter 27 - Danger to Anne
16:55
Chapter 28 - Anne Does Wonders
24:08
Chapter 29 - A Dissembler
9:19
Chapter 30 - At The Theatre Royal
16:33
Chapter 31 - Midnight Visitors
13:46
Chapter 32 - Deliverance
12:01
Chapter 33 - A Discovery Turns the Scale
23:11
Chapter 34 - A Speck on the Sea
23:16
Chapter 35 - A Sailor Enters
16:09
Chapter 36 - Derriman Sees Chances
12:21
Chapter 37 - Reaction
19:53
Chapter 38 - A Delicate Situation
20:36
Chapter 39 - Bob Loveday Struts Up and Down
22:57
Chapter 40 - A Call on Business
15:50
Chapter 41 - John Marches into the Night
8:38

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In a Wessex village during the Napoleonic invasion scare, the gentle miller's son who serves as the local trumpet-major loves a spirited young woman courted by several rivals, while England braces for a French landing that may never come. Lighter and warmer than Hardy's tragedies, this historical romance blends comedy, tender feeling, and vivid period detail of a countryside on a war footing. Charming and gently ironic, The Trumpet-Major evokes a bygone rural England shadowed by distant great events. A delightful and affectionate novel, it shows Hardy's lighter touch while retaining his deep feeling for the land, the past, and the quiet dramas of ordinary hearts.

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet whose fiction, set in a half-imagined Wessex, probed fate, class, and the constraints of Victorian society. His major novels are cornerstones of English literature.

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