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The Trumpet Major

Thomas Hardy
 (1840 - 1928)

Read by Rebecca Dittman, Robbie Rogers, Alana Jordan, Roger Melin, Becca B, 
Valli, Markman, Jack Farrell, Simon Evers, Aaron Elliott


Run time 11 Hours 48 Minutes in 10 Audio CDs

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 color 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 womanizer, 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.

Chapter Titles:
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 


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