[Gutenberg 2864] • The Trumpet-Major
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- Authors
- Hardy, Thomas
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Tags
- historical fiction , love stories , great britain -- history -- regency , england -- social life and customs -- 19th century -- fiction , wessex (england) -- fiction , classics , brothers -- fiction , 1800-1837 -- fiction , napoleonic wars , merchant mariners -- fiction , soldiers -- fiction , 1800-1815 -- fiction
- ISBN
- 9780192836359
- Date
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.28 MB
- Lang
- en
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 restores Hardy's original punctuation and removes the bowdlerisms forced upon the text on its initial publication.