Trumpet Major

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Published 1800 -1900

Authors: Thomas Hardy In Year : 1880

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Trumpet Major

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

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.)