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The Trumpet-Major

by Thomas Hardy, Simon Vance (Goodreads Author) (Narrator)

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Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements. In The Trumpet Major, the tale of a woman courted by three competing suitors during the Napoleonic wars, he explores the subversive effects of ordinary human desire and conflicting loyalties on systematized versions of history. This edition

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May 09, 2013 Clara rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Sad - It started out great, but I was angry at the turn it took.

I would agree with the fact that Anne, the heroine of the book is the least likeable of Hardy's. I couldn't sympathize with her actions and her course left me angry and frustrated.

Because of this, I don't know that I would ever re-read this book.

However, The Trumpet Major has some of the most lively and interesting characters of Hardy's creation as well. I absolutely loved Uncle Benji who almost seemed to have stepped out of a Dic...more

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Feb 20, 2013 Caitlin Callaghan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The premise of The Trumpet-Major may sound lighthearted--indeed, such is the reason many contemporaneous critics embraced this novel--but the characters are so finely and deeply sketched, and the events so uniquely depicted, and the voice of the text so true that one soon sees how much richness this premise actually allows. And the wittiness! Not only from the droll voice-of-the-narrator Hardy, but also from characters like Simon Burden and Corporal Tullidge, who pop up like Rosencrantz and Guil...more

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Dec 04, 2011 Bettie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: winter-20112012, published-1880, britain-england, classic, victorian

fraudio
napoleonic
war
1880
victorian
historical fic (believe this is the only foray into hist-fic that Mr Hardy made)

Unabridged; 10.7 hours; read by Simon Vance.

blurb - Anne Garland, who lives with her widowed mother in a mill owned by Miller Loveday, has three suitors: the local squire's nephew Festus and the miller's two sons, Robert and John. While Festus' aggressive pursuit deters the young woman from considering him as a husband, the indecisive Anne wavers between light-hearted Bob and gentle,...more

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Jul 30, 2011 David Mcdowell added it · review of another edition

This is quite an uncomfortable read for a Hardy. I wasn't sure why I felt it to be so until I read the excellent Introduction to this edition. It was perceived by readers at the time as a charming pastoral romance and the style was partly a response to the badly-reviewed 'Return of the Native' (a book I like a lot).

There are 3 sides to the book all of which take prominence at various times and result in the disjointed or uneasy feel.

The part that most readers would focus on is the romance 'quadr...more

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Jul 25, 2011 Kezia rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Anne Garland is quite possibly Hardy's least appealing heroine, which unfortunately makes this his least appealing novel. Status-conscious, shy, cold, boring beyond her years, with no apparent talents or hobbies, Anne finds herself the object of the affections of two working-class brothers as well as the heir of the kindly local squire.

Anne is unlike other 'Hardy Girls' and Hardy is unlike himself in this story. He more interested in the military maneuvers during the Napoleonic wars than he is...more

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Jul 01, 2012 Ali rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was the latest read for my online Hardy reading group – we are reading one book every two months chronologically. I’m a big Hardy fan – and I am so enjoying rediscovering the works I first fell in love with when I was between about eighteen and twenty. I do find though, that my memory of many of the actual plots has suffered greatly over the intervening years – that was certainly the case with The Trumpet Major. My one recollection was of military men in uniform, at the time of the Napoleon...more This was the latest read for my online Hardy reading group – we are reading one book every two months chronologically. I’m a big Hardy fan – and I am so enjoying rediscovering the works I first fell in love with when I was between about eighteen and twenty. I do find though, that my memory of many of the actual plots has suffered greatly over the intervening years – that was certainly the case with The Trumpet Major. My one recollection was of military men in uniform, at the time of the Napoleonic wars. I had completely forgotten how it ended – which I was rather glad of really.
I think the Trumpet Major is generally considered to be a fairly minor work by Hardy. Of course it could be said that a minor work by Hardy is still a fairly great piece of literature – well I certainly think so. The Trumpet Major is beautifully written, and the characterisation is fabulous, many of the more minor characters beautifully comic. The English countryside and the natural world are always at their best in Hardy’s Wessex, and here the small rural communities that Hardy grew up in, are affectionately reproduced. In writing The Trumpet Major, Hardy was writing an historical novel – which he had been inspired to do after meeting with aged survivors of the conflict at Chelsea hospital in 1875. Although the story mainly concerns the three possible suitors for the hand of Anne Garland – Hardy also faithfully depicts both the fear and patriotism in small English communities at this time.
“Their excitement was merely of a piece with that of all men at this critical juncture. Everywhere expectation was at fever heat. For the last year or two only five-and-twenty miles of shallow water had divided quiet English homesteads from an enemy’s army of a hundred and fifty thousand men. We had taken the matter lightly enough, eating and drinking as in the days of Noe, and singing satires without end. We punned on Bonaparte and his gunboats, chalked his effigy on stage-coaches, and published the same in prints. Still, between these bursts of hilarity, it was sometimes recollected that England was the only European country which had not succumbed to the mighty little man who was less than human in feeling, and more than human in will; that our spirit for resistance was greater than our strength; and that the Channel was often calm.”
A thin partition wall divides the home of the Widow Garland and her daughter Anne, from that of the Miller Loveday. The two households get along well together, although Mrs Garland feels that she and her daughter are socially superior to the Lovedays. This does not prevent her from marrying the genial Miller Loveday – but she is less keen for her daughter to marry either of his sons. John the elder is the eponymous Trumpet Major – a good honourable man in the tradition of many other Hardy heroes. Robert his brother to whom Anne once lost her heart when still a very young girl is a sailor – and something of a womaniser. The third suitor to Anne is the cowardly oafish Festus Derriman, a conniving Dragoon, and nephew of the local squire. It is Derriman whom Mrs Garland (later Mrs Loveday) champions in her social ambitions for her daughter.
Needless to say there are many obstacles, misunderstandings, tears and fainting aways to be gone through before Anne decides with whom her future will rest. Anne is ever so slightly irritating at times – I found myself tutting and saying “for heaven’s sake you silly girl!” However John Loveday – the Trumpet Major is wonderful – sigh! I also rather adored Uncle Benji – the horrid Festus Derriman’s uncle – he’s a masterful comic creation.
I won’t give away the ending so I will say no more of the story. Overall however I found The Trumpet Major entertaining and hugely readable – it has in fact a much lighter touch than many other Hardy novels and could be said therefore to be a quite quick read. It is certainly a lighter novel than Far from the Madding Crowd or Return of the Native, which the Hardy group read recently but for me it still has much to recommend it.
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Aug 23, 2011 Alan S. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Those who criticise this remarkable novel should really go back to school to find out why they are missing the point. It has never achieved the accolades that so many of Hardy's other novels have. Although I more than adequately could, I will not repeat the several other complimentary reviews which are on this site.

Suffice to say that 'The Trumpet Major' occupies an almost unique slot in the Hardy 'repertoire' in that, unlike many of his works (such as 'Jude', Far From The Madding Crowd and 'Te...more

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Dec 17, 2010 Durdles rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Having just read "A pair of Blue Eyes" I was hungry for a new Thomas Hardy novel. He doesn't write many these days; his fit of pique over the bad reaction to "Jude" has gone on long enough. This novel is less substantial and quite amusing. Having read it I realise that nothing actually happens! But the description of nothing actually happening is lovely.
Incidently, the French, (led by an Irish American called Tate but not including Bony) did invade Britain at this time - further round the coast...more

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Dec 11, 2012 Mel rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 19th-century-fiction, victorian, victorian-lit

I’d not heard of this Hardy novel but found it in a charity shop for 50p so thought it’d be worth getting. I have to say when I think of Hardy I rarely think of him as a laugh out loud author but this time I really was! There were parts that were simply hilarious, such as in the very beginning, “It should be stated that at this time there were two arch-enemies of mankind – satan as usual, and Buonaparte, who had sprung up and eclipsed his elder rival altogether. Mrs Garland alluded, of course,...more

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Sep 26, 2011 Anthony Bellaleigh rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read one of the free Kindle ebook conversions. ASIN: B004UJI9NW

The conversion seemed fine to me. There were no new pages between chapters but it made no difference to my reading experience and I didn't notice any significant typos.

The story is based in a tiny village in Hardy's imaginary county of Wessex on the South coast of England. It centres around three men, all from the village, returning home to discover Anne - recently blossomed into womanhood and without a suitor. Clearly (and especia...more

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Apr 12, 2013 Pauline Butcher Bird rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

We are so used, these days, to books and drama being character-led that this plot-led book feels dated. The insipid heroine, Anne Garland, and the three men pursuing her read like cardboard cut-outs. Whenever Ann walks through the depths of the countryside, she mysteriously is accosted by one or other of the three men. This feels very contrived.

Yes, there are lots of misunderstandings but these could have taken place beween any four characters. The hero and heroine are sugar sweet, and the two v...more

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Aug 11, 2012 Sandra-Jane Goddard rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Trumpet-Major is usually regarded as one of Hardy's lesser works but I found it enjoyable. The plot is a very 'small' one but as it slowly wends its way, you build-up a very detailed picture of rural life and the frenzy of the military preparations for war that grip the small community. In fact, the main character - The Trumpet-Major himself - doesn't arrive until well into the book, at which point the plot does gain a little pace. From there, it twists and turns with all possible romantic p...more

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Feb 05, 2011 Esther rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-book, classic

Hardy has written enough books to keep me happy for years now - and there are still more for me to read, thank goodness! There is something about him - an earthiness, a darkness, that makes his stories (which are always about the complications of human relationships, and explorations of human character weighed against fate) very satisfying and full, though not always happy. This one might be lighter than most, but I very much enjoy how he refuses to simplify relationships. I could say more, but...more

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Sep 22, 2012 Inaba Rina rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

-Macmillan Readers.level 2.
-Time:09/19=30 mintes;09/21=60minutes.
-7 words summery:three boys/love/woman/war/victry/give up/goodbye
-Discussion question:
1.If you have a boyfriend(girlfriend) and he(she) decided to go to dangerous country for our country, what would you do?
;I think I stop him because we may not come back!!
2.How do you stay in touch, when contacting someone? Why do you use it?
;I always use e-mail because it is easy to contact with my firends and family:)

This book is love story, so i...more

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Jan 24, 2011 Ben Crandell rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is a typical Thomas Hardy book without so much drama. It is set on the southern shore of England during Napoleon's reign. They actually mention some of the English propaganda that was used to rally young men into defending England.
But, of course, this is a story of heartbreak. It has a happier ending than most of his books - perhaps all of his books. There is very little treachery in this one. So you can enjoy his splendid writing without the anguish of witnessing so much folly, terrib...more

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Jan 10, 2012 Nancy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, cultural-history, fiction, history-romance

I really liked The Trumpet-Major and wish this was a better known Hardy book. Unlike most of Hardy's other works, it does not get bogged down in moral angst. Nobody drags around beating themselves to death over their decisions or lack of bravery.
There is a philosophical tone to this book and the idea one can do better. After all, this is Hardy and he can't help himself. But The Trumpet-Major carries a hopeful tone.
The main character, Anne Garland, is in the midst of a quadrangle of romance an...more

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Nov 10, 2011 Alicia rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, set in an English village during the Napoleonic Wars. The story line was okay (not Thomas Hardy's best) but I always enjoy reading/listening to Thomas Hardy's descriptions of life in a small English village. I listened to this on one of my favorite web sites: Libri Vox, where you can listen to hundreds of old classics for free. Because they're read by volunteers, some readers are much better than others, but it's a great website for anyone wanting to...more

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Jul 02, 2012 Natalie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Trumpet-Major contains bundles of beautiful descriptions about location and rural life and it has a very interesting historical setting. Though it isn’t the melancholic, angst ridden Hardy that I'm familiar with. And Anne Garland is not someone I found myself particularly caring for. Regardless, there were a few great moments, especially towards the last 1/3 of the book. I'm not sure this story is going to linger with me but it was a good read while it lasted and I'm looking forward to readi...more

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Aug 06, 2012 Drew Graham rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

(Closer to 3.5, but I had to round down this time.)

The residents of Overcombe are thrilled when a troop of soldiers sets up camp on the outskirts of their village. Among the especially excited are a local miller who lives nearby, as well as his tenants, the widow Mrs. Garland and her daughter Anne. The miller's son, John Loveday, serves as able and celebrated trumpet-major of the dragoon, and his contentment at returning home for a time increases when he is reintroduced to young Miss Garland, no...more (Closer to 3.5, but I had to round down this time.)

The residents of Overcombe are thrilled when a troop of soldiers sets up camp on the outskirts of their village. Among the especially excited are a local miller who lives nearby, as well as his tenants, the widow Mrs. Garland and her daughter Anne. The miller's son, John Loveday, serves as able and celebrated trumpet-major of the dragoon, and his contentment at returning home for a time increases when he is reintroduced to young Miss Garland, now winsome young woman. Although she admires the trumpet-major, before long her romantic attentions are drawn away by other suitors who, most inopportunely for John, seem to appear from every direction. Events naturally are soon complicated with the return home of the miller's other son, the merchant sailor Robert, and as a hot-headed local man is also determined to win Anne over.

This is the seventh book in my readthrough of Thomas Hardy's entire published works, and (though I feel like a traitor to say it) I think this one falls somewhere near the middle-to-bottom. It wasn't necessarily bad, it just wasn't awesome. I did read through it pretty quickly, and was almost always curious what was going to happen each time I sat down to read, but then it left me feeling kind of indifferent. The characters were readable and varied, but as far as development and interest, they were hit-and-miss, from the very memorable (the irascible and even threatening Festus Derriman and his penurious hypochondriac uncle) to the less so (the good but a little bland John Loveday and his changeable brother Bob, and even the somehow highly desirable Anne Garland). There were a few interesting twists that made me kind of gasp, but then they either just kept happening, losing some of their impact, or kind of fizzled. There was one particular bit regarding a deep secret about the ever-present threat to marital bliss, saucy actress Matilda Johnson, which was darkly hinted at several times, but then in the end never revealed (I'm sure it could be inferred, but a little less subtlety might have added understanding of her character). John was good, but Anne was kind of fickle, so it made me wonder at times if she even really deserved him, but at the same time I didn't want her to end up with Bob or, heaven forbid, Fess. Speaking of whom, it was compelling to watch the evolution of a few of the characters though, especially Fess. That guy's a pretty intriguing psychological study (in that, well, he's kind of psycho). Whatever their faults though, I could picture almost all of the characters really vividly in my head, and I felt like I knew them, though they were foolish and human. The writing was pretty good, but there seemed to be something missing compared to his other books. It was unique in its setting and characters, being largely military-based and with even a little historical fiction blended in, with talk of military maneuvers and the threat of Napoleon, and maybe that element just didn't resonate much with me for whatever reason. Also, the structure just seemed just a little sloppy and random, like he didn't really plot this one out, but just went with it to see what would happen (which could also be an interesting practice for an author, I guess). The plot meandered a little, and the characters were sometimes inconsistent almost to the point of frustration (which is kind of an expected element in his books), and it almost seemed just for the sake of giving them something new to do. It was kind of a mixture of styles, the pastoral, the military, the romance, the comedy, and they worked together, just not perfectly cohesively. The ending was bittersweet and kind of foretold doom, but I didn't mind that. It almost seemed like it ended in a way that wasn't even quite satisfactory to Hardy, but how it had to end for these characters. It was fun, just kind of flimsy, and it didn't really say much in the end.

Some of the most interesting things I gleaned from this book were actually included in the introduction (which I read AFTER I finished the book, having definitely learned my lesson being spoiled with previous books... seriously, just because it's a classic doesn't mean EVERYone has read it!). Regarding Thomas Hardy's MO in his novels:

"... [H]e focuses on the central concern which is present in all his novels: the complicated antagonisms between desire and fulfillment, and the conflicts created by the coming together of men and women... Through his portrayal of John Loveday and Anne Garland he explores the topic which continually fascinated him: the conflict between consciousness and existence, between what should be and what is."

I enjoyed reading this book whenever I sat down, but in the end it didn't really follow through for a few reasons. It was still a good read, and you can hardly go wrong with Thomas Hardy, but it wasn't his best. A lack of depth of character and a somewhat meandering plot left this one near the bottom of the list (since, of course, SOMEthing has to be near the bottom). Maybe I just like my Hardy to be a little more dramatic.(less)

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Aug 10, 2011 Phil rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I read it for O level English Lit - ooooh, SO many years ago now. But it had exactly what I want from a Hardy novel. I've never bought into the "misery is good" atmosphere of Tess of the d'Urbervilles or Jude the Obscure. What I want from Hardy is fabulous descriptions of Wessex country life in the 1800s, great characterisation, one or two tangled love affairs and a sense of a world no longer here.

That is exactly what I got from this novel. The story is as good as...more I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I read it for O level English Lit - ooooh, SO many years ago now. But it had exactly what I want from a Hardy novel. I've never bought into the "misery is good" atmosphere of Tess of the d'Urbervilles or Jude the Obscure. What I want from Hardy is fabulous descriptions of Wessex country life in the 1800s, great characterisation, one or two tangled love affairs and a sense of a world no longer here.

That is exactly what I got from this novel. The story is as good as any Jane Austen, what with the two brothers both in love with Anne Garland, the dastardly and cowardly Festus Derriman, the miserly old Squire Derriman and the unusual, but fascinating, backdrop of the mid-Napoleonic war. Most of Hardy's novels were almost contemporary, so this is unusual in being set roughly 75 years before it was written, at a time when the threat of invasion was real and expected (and without any form of speedy communication beyond fire beacons along the coastline, also the first you might know would be the French walking up the footpath to the mill).

In other reviews on here, I think that Anne Garland is treated harshly, as though she were a modern woman, with modern attitudes to marriage and modern freedoms. But she's not, she's as hidebound and restricted by convention as any Austen heroine. She's also probably only 17 when the novel opens (although we're never actually told her age). I liked Anne, and she was put into difficult situation by all three men who come courting her. Her decision was made not using modern reasoning, such as being in love, but by pre-Victorian reasoning such as "will this man be a good husband, will he be a suitable match". Anne is feisty enough, without being sugary sweet.

One thing that was a surprise me though was that Mrs Garland, Anne's mother, is considered an old woman when she's only about 40. when I read it at school, I thought that she and the Miller must have been ancient when they got married.

Ho-hum, time comes to us all. Anyway - go read this, don't accept the dashing it gets from the miseryguts who prefer their Hardy to be a bottomless well of despair.(less)

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Dec 21, 2009 Maria rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: literature

Hardy's only historical novel takes place in my favorite period of history, the Napoleonic Wars. His descriptions of calvary regiment bivouac procedures, drills, and the false alarm of a French invasion of the coast are superbly written and well worth the read. The title, on the other hand, is misleading, unless Hardy has an obsession with heroes being worthy of the name only by dying. The book could more readily be named "The First Lieutenant" or perhaps even better, "How Stupid Can a Girl Get?...more

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Nov 18, 2012 Michael Moseley rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A historic and Dorset view of the war with France around the time of Trafalgar. This very pedantry view of country life, love lost & found and the simple country view of simple people. Many aspects of history pop up in the story along with the detailed coming & goings of a simple mill owner and his extended and new family.

A pair of brothers fight of the love of a girl with great dignity and decorum. The older brother losses out completely and dies in battle.

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Jul 25, 2007 علی rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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A bit different from the rest by Hardy. Lovers are still there, and the beloved, but when Ann marry Bob, and not his brother John, the trumpet major walks in the night's dark, while playing his trupet, so long that the tune fades in war fields in Spain!
یکی از چیزهایی که باعث می شود این اثر هاردی متفاوت جلوه کند، زمینه ی رمان است، دوره ی جنگ های ناپلئون، جنگ اما حضوری کم رنگ تر از عشق دارد، صحنه ی وقایع یک آسیاب است دور از میدان های جنگ، سربازها و کارگران جنگ هستند، حتی شیپورچی، جنگ اما در زمینه...more

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May 13, 2012 Robin added it · review of another edition

I liked this book for the style of prose that only Thomas Hardy can deliver. His details of the rich countryside brought to life this story of a miller, his two sons, one who became a trumpet major in the military and the other a sailor. This is a fascinating book, I have read other Hardy books but this one felt much more contemporary due to its subject matter. A book worth reading.

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Aug 16, 2012 Jill rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: brit-lit, classics

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Jun 05, 2008 Jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: fans of Thomas Hardy and complicated romances

I nearly put this book down for good around page 50 because it gets off to a slow start, but in the end, I'm so glad I finished it. Like other reviewers have said, this novel is a bit different for Hardy. It is a comic-romantic tale set against the historical reality of the Napoleonic wars. I would call it a book about a love triangle, but it's more like a love hexagon. There are lots of funny moments, which struck me as odd compared to Hardy's other novels, and very rarely did I sympathize with...more

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Apr 23, 2012 Julia rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I stayed with it to the end, but The Trumpet-Major didn’t hold my attention very well. The various characters were each believable in their own right, but I didn’t like the heroine very much; she was wishy-washy, self-centered, and uninteresting. The one major character I did like did not receive due rewards for his good character. There just wasn’t much to the story other than wondering who the heroine would end up with. It was intriguing to get a glimpse into the life of the English in a time...more

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Aug 02, 2011 Robin Hall rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Classic Hardy - wonderful language, constantly twisting plot, deep characters all wrapped in a wonderfully painted landscape. I love reading Hardy, with the exception of Tess (which just made me want to slap all the main characters) - this is much better.

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Mar 17, 2010 Siobhan rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another audio book aquired for travel, and another great find that now has me attached to my ipod even though the travel is over.
Well, the language was wonderful, but the characters seemed a little dense. I kept waiting for them to realize what was really going on. A light Hardy, as Hardys go.

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Sep 26, 2010 Christopher H. rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: british-literature, historical-fiction, thomas-hardy, victorian-literature, read-in-2010

While I enjoyed Hardy's foray into historical fiction, I didn't think it a particularly note-worthy novel. It certainly shed an interesting light on the home-front attitudes and fears of the 'Wessex' people living along the coast in the early years of the Napoleonic wars. With a decent enough plot, the novel keeps the reader's interest, and also has some truly comic moments and characters. Having said this though, I am very glad that I read it; after all, Thomas Hardy wrote it. A solid three sta...more

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