num_pages: 411
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Trumpet-Major
titlecomplete: The Trumpet-Major
genres: Fiction, English Literature, British Literature, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 3234
places: Dorset, England
publisher: Adamant Media Corporation