The Trumpet-Major
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The Trumpet-Major is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1880.
[edit] External links
- The Trumpet Major, available at Project Gutenberg.
This article about a romance novel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it, and please consider joining Wikipedia's WikiProject on Novels.The heroine, Ann Garland, is pursued by 3 suitors, John Loveday, the trumpet major in a British regiment, honest and loyal, his brother Bob, a merchant seaman and womaniser, and Festus Derriman, the cowardly son of the local squire. The setting is the Napoleonic wars, and it seems Miss Garland has a penchant for men in uniform. Of the two brothers, John fights with Wellington at Waterloo, and Bob serves with Nelson at Trafalgar. Unusually for a Hardy novel, most of the characters live happily ever after.
