The Trumpet-Major

by Hardy, Thomas; Nemesvari, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780192827180
• ISBN10: 0192827189
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-09-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgment	p. vi
General Editor's Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
Note On The Text	p. xxiii
Select Bibliography	p. xxx
A Chronology Of Thomas Hardy	p. xxxii
Preface	p. 3
What Was Seen from the Window Overlooking the Down	p. 7
Somebody Knocks and Comes In	p. 16
the Mill Becomes an Important Centre of Operations	p. 24
Who Were Present at the Miller's Little Entertainment	p. 32
the Song and the Stranger	p. 36
Old Mr Derriman of Oxwell Hall	p. 45
How They Talked in the Pastures	p. 57
Anne Makes a Circuit of the Camp	p. 62
Anne is Kindly Fetched by the Trumpet-Major	p. 70
the Matchmaking Virtues of a Double Garden	p. 83
Our People Are Affected by the Presence of Royalty	p. 90
How Everybody Great and Small Climbed to the Top of the Downs	p. 101
the Conversation in the Crowd	p. 108
Later in the Evening of the Same Day	p. 114
"Captain" Bob Loveday, of the Merchant Service	p. 119
They Make Ready for the Illustrious Stranger	p. 131
Containing Two Fainting-Fits and a Bewilderment	p. 141
the Night After the Arrival	p. 148
Miss Johnson's Behaviour Causes No Little Surprise	p. 154
How They Lessened the Effect of the Calamity	p. 163
"Upon the Hill He Turned"	p. 170
the Two Households United	p. 177
Military Preparations on an Extended Scale	p. 188
a Letter, a Visitor, and a Tin Box	p. 199
Festus Shows His Love	p. 205
the Alarm	p. 212
Danger to Anne	p. 225
Anne Does Wonders	p. 233
a Dissembler	p. 245
at the Theatre Royal	p. 250
Midnight Visitors	p. 259
Deliverance	p. 267
a Discovery Turns the Scale	p. 274
a Speck on the Sea	p. 287
a Sailor Enters	p. 297
Derriman Sees Chances	p. 304
Reaction	p. 310
a Delicate Situation	p. 319
Bob Loveday Struts Up and Down	p. 329
a Call on Business	p. 340
John Marches into the Night	p. 348
Explanatory Notes	p. 352
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