Trumpet Major
Thomas Hardy
42 chapters · 11 h 48 min · English
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Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments preparing for an expected invasion brings colour and chaos to the county. A graceful and charming young woman, Anne is pursued by three suitors: John Loveday, the trumpet-major in a British regiment, honest and loyal; his brother Robert, a merchant seaman and womaniser, and Festus Derriman, the cowardly son of the local squire. Set at the time of the Napoleonic wars, this is the author's only historical novel, and unusually for Hardy's books, some of the characters live happily ever after. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Cori Samuel.)
Chapters
1 Chapter 00 - Preface 4 min 2 Chapter 01 - What Was Seen From the Window Overlooking the Down 21 min 3 Chapter 02 - Somebody Knocks and Comes In 18 min 4 Chapter 03 - The Mill Becomes an Important Centre of Operations 17 min 5 Chapter 04 - Who Were Present at the Miller's Little Entertainment 7 min 6 Chapter 05 - The Song and the Stranger 17 min 7 Chapter 06 - Old Mr. Derriman of Oxwell Hall 24 min 8 Chapter 07 - How They Talked in the Pastures 8 min 9 Chapter 08 - Anne Makes a Circuit of the the Camp 15 min 10 Chapter 09 - Anne is Kindly Fetched by the Trumpet-Major 28 min 11 Chapter 10 - The Matchmaking Virtues of a Double Garden 16 min 12 Chapter 11 - Our People Are Affected by the Presence of Royalty 21 min 13 Chapter 12 - How Everybody Great and Small Climbed.. 15 min 14 Chapter 13 - The Conversation in the Crowd 12 min 15 Chapter 14 - Later in the Eve. of the Same Day 9 min 16 Chapter 15 - 'Captain' Bob Loveday of the Merchant Service 23 min 17 Chapter 16 - They Make Ready for the Illustrious Stranger 23 min 18 Chapter 17 - Two Fainting Fits and a Bewilderment 16 min 19 Chapter 18 - The Night After the Arrival 13 min 20 Chapter 19 - Miss Johnson's Behaviour Causes No Little Surprise 19 min 21 Chapter 20 - How They Lessened the Effect of the Calamity 19 min 22 Chapter 21 - 'Upon the Hill He Turned' 12 min 23 Chapter 22 - The Two Households United 23 min 24 Chapter 23 - Military Preparations on an Extended Scale 21 min 25 Chapter 24 - A Letter, A Visitor and a Tin Box 10 min 26 Chapter 25 - Festus Shows His Love 13 min 27 Chapter 26 - The Alarm 26 min 28 Chapter 27 - Danger to Anne 17 min 29 Chapter 28 - Anne Does Wonders 24 min 30 Chapter 29 - A Dissembler 9 min 31 Chapter 30 - At The Theatre Royal 17 min 32 Chapter 31 - Midnight Visitors 14 min 33 Chapter 32 - Deliverance 12 min 34 Chapter 33 - A Discovery Turns the Scale 23 min 35 Chapter 34 - A Speck on the Sea 23 min 36 Chapter 35 - A Sailor Enters 16 min 37 Chapter 36 - Derriman Sees Chances 12 min 38 Chapter 37 - Reaction 20 min 39 Chapter 38 - A Delicate Situation 21 min 40 Chapter 39 - Bob Loveday Struts Up and Down 23 min 41 Chapter 40 - A Call on Business 16 min 42 Chapter 41 - John Marches into the Night 9 min
