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The Trumpet-Major
The Trumpet-Major: Works of Hardy | Thomas Hardy
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PREFACE The present tale is founded more largely on testimonyoral and writtenthan any other in this series. The external incidents which direct its course are mostly an unexaggerated reproduction of the recollections of old persons well known to the author in childhood, but now long dead, who were eye-witnesses of those scenes. If wholly transcribed their recollections would have filled a volume thrice the length of The Trumpet-Major. Down to the middle of this century, and later, there were not wanting, in the neighbourhood of the places more or less clearly indicated herein, casual relics of the circumstances amid which the action movesour preparations for defence against the threatened invasion of England by Buonaparte. An outhouse door riddled with bullet-holes, which had been extemporized by a solitary man as a target for firelock practice when the landing was hourly expected, a heap of bricks and clods on a beacon-hill, which had formed the chimney and walls of the hut occupied by the beacon-keeper, worm-eaten shafts and iron heads of pikes for the use of those who had no better weapons, ridges on the down thrown up during the encampment, fragments of volunteer uniform, and other such lingering remains, brought to my imagination in early childhood the state of affairs at the date of the war more vividly than volumes of history could have done.
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Panpan

It was a relatively short book by page numbers, but it took a while to get through. A love square with Anne considering Festus, Bob, and John. She should have picked John. Most worthy of them all. But no, she picked the player, his brother. And then such a depressing ending with Uncle Benjy dying and finding out that John dies a few years later. On top of all this, I don‘t know why they all thought Anne was such a catch. She was just coy.

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Lcsmcat
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The #grey spines of my Wordsworth Classics. #colormepretty @Sweetkokoro

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SharonGoforth
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Mehso-so

Finished! I'm quickly deciding that as much as I love Hardy, his "romances" don't hold up nearly as well as his major novels for me. I found myself mostly frustrated with all the characters and just wanted it to be done. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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SharonGoforth
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Today's plan: finish reading unfinished books. Right now, that would be The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy. I'm halfway through, and hope to be done before midnight. Dinah is making sure I stay on track. 🐱📚#catsoflitsy

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SharonGoforth
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In addition to the physical books I own, I also have a Kindle Fire and a brand-new Nook Glow-Light. Plus, I have both the Nook and Kindle apps, along with Audible and other reading apps that I use in conjunction with the library. I like having options 😊 #seasonsreadings2016 #ereaders

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SharonGoforth
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Do not disturb 💤💤😺

quirkyreader I liked the Trumpet Major. And something cool about the story, if you "forget" that it was written by Hardy it reads just like a Jane Austen novel. 8y
SharonGoforth @quirkyreader I just started it, and it certainly doesn't read like a "typical" Hardy novel. I'll definitely be keeping the Jane Austen idea in mind-I love her writing! Thanks for the heads-up! 8y
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HotCocoaReads
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Pickpick

While this is definitely not one of Hardy's best, I got glimpses of the things I love most about his writing--tragic characters, beautiful descriptions, and interesting plot twists. Anne was not a strong character so it's difficult to understand why they're all fighting over her! That makes it harder to really get into the novel. The ending is sad because the main hero doesn't get the girl. Still, for Hardy lovers--as I am--it's an important book.

SusanInTiburon What a bookmark! 8y
HotCocoaReads Isn't it a beauty? @SusanInTiburon It's a custom Thomas Hardy bookmark!!! 8y
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HotCocoaReads
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Having hastily unlocked a receptacle for emotional objects of small size, she took thence the little folded paper with which we have already become acquainted, and, striking a light from her private tinder-box, she held the paper, and curl of hair it contained, in the candle till they were burnt.

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HotCocoaReads
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"Thus they crossed the threshold of the mill-house and up the passage, the paving of which was worn into a gutter by the ebb and flow of feet that had been going on there ever since Tudor times."

DebinHawaii Beautiful picture! 🌺 8y
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