| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 43 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Simon Vance. |
| Summary |
Against the larger-than-life backdrop of England's conflict with Napoleon, young Anne Garland is courted by three suitors: the trumpet-major John Loveday, his sailor-brother Bob, and Festus Derriman of the yeomanry cavalry. For Hardy, the loves and sorrows of ordinary characters are as much the material of history as any record of emperors and generals. The present tale is founded largely on testimony; the external incidents of the plot reproduce the recollections of elders known to Hardy in his childhood. If wholly transcribed, their recollections would have filled a volume thrice the length of The Trumpet-Major. Instead, Hardy offers a complex weave of historical fact and fiction, a genre of his own that explores the subversive effects of ordinary human desires on systematized versions of history. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction.
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Soldiers -- England -- Wessex -- Fiction.
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Brothers -- England -- Wessex -- Fiction.
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Wessex (England) -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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Love stories.
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| Added Author |
Whitfield, Robert. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982491468 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982491469 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10026156 |
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