Name: The trumpet-major, John Loveday, a soldier in the war with Buonaparte, and Robert his brother, first mate in the merchant service; a tale. With an etc
SKU: 58737142
Price: 404.00 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9781975698539

portada The trumpet-major, John Loveday, a soldier in the war with Buonaparte, and Robert his brother, first mate in the merchant service; a tale. With an etc

The trumpet-major, John Loveday, a soldier in the war with Buonaparte, and Robert his brother, first mate in the merchant service; a tale. With an etc

Type

Physical Book

Author

Thomas Hardy

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

198

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4x20.3x1.1 cm

Weight

0.40 kg.

ISBN13

9781975698539

Synopsis "The trumpet-major, John Loveday, a soldier in the war with Buonaparte, and Robert his brother, first mate in the merchant service; a tale. With an etc"

The Trumpet-Major is a novel by Thomas Hardy published in 1880, and his only historical novel. It concerns the heroine, Anne Garland, being pursued by three suitors: John Loveday, the eponymous trumpet major in a British regiment, honest and loyal; his brother Bob, a flighty sailor; and Festus Derriman, the cowardly nephew of the local squire. Unusually for a Hardy novel, the ending is not entirely tragic; however, there remains an ominous element in the probable fate of one of the main characters. The novel is set in Weymouth during the Napoleonic wars;the town was then anxious about the possibility of invasion by Napoleon.Of the two brothers, John fights with Wellington in the Peninsular War, and Bob serves with Nelson at Trafalgar. The Napoleonic Wars was a setting that Hardy would use again in his play, The Dynasts, and it borrows from the same source material.

Thomas Hardy

(Author)

View Author's Page

Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced in both his novels and his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth

See less