From the acclaimed author of works such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far From the Madding Crowd comes the novel The Trumpet-Major, which combines the backdrop of wartime with the aching intensity of Harding's best work about love relationships....
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From the acclaimed author of works such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far From the Madding Crowd comes the novel The Trumpet-Major, which combines the backdrop of wartime with the aching intensity of Harding's best work about love relationships. Fans of historical fiction that is humanized by plotlines that focus on personal relationships should heed the call of The Trumpet-Major
Title; Contents; Preface; I - What was Seen from the Window Overlooking the Down; II - Somebody Knocks and Comes In; III - The Mill Becomes an Important Centre of Operations; IV - Who Were Present at the Miller's Little Entertainment; V - The Song and the Stranger; VI - Old Mr. Derriman of Oxwell Hall; VII - How They Talked in the Pastures; VIII - Anne Makes a Circuit of the Camp; IX - Anne is Kindly Fetched by the Trumpet-Major; X - The Match-Making Virtues of a Double Garden; XI - Our People Are Affected by the Presence of Royalty
XII - How Everybody Great and Small Climbed to the Top of the DownsXIII - The Conversation in the Crowd; XIV - Later in the Evening of the Same Day; XV - 'Captain' Bob Loveday of the Merchant Service; XVI - They Make Ready for the Illustrious Stranger; XVII - Two Fainting Fits and a Bewilderment; XVIII - The Night After the Arrival; XIX - Miss Johnson's Behaviour Causes No Little Surprise; XX - How They Lessened the Effect of the Calamity; XXI - 'Upon the Hill He Turned'; XXII - The Two Households United; XXIII - Military Preparations on an Extended Scale
XXIV - A Letter, a Visitor, and a Tin BoxXXV - Festus Shows His Love; XXVI - The Alarm; XXVII - Danger to Anne; XXVIII - Anne Does Wonders; XXIX - A Dissembler; XXX - At the Theatre Royal; XXXI - Midnight Visitors; XXXII - Deliverance; XXXIII - A Discovery Turns the Scale; XXXIV - A Speck on the Sea; XXXV - A Sailor Enters; XXXVI - Derriman Sees Chances; XXXVII - Reaction; XXXVIII - A Delicate Situation; XXXIX - Bob Loveday Struts Up and Down; XL - A Call on Business; XLI - John Marches into the Night; Endnotes;
