Title: The Trumpet-Major, and Robert His Brother
Description: Set against a backdrop of the Napoleonic wars, this is a novel about a young woman and the three very different suitors who vie for her hand. Two of the men are brothers involved in the fighting, one an easygoing sailor, the other an honest and diffident trumpet major, the third suitor being the cowardly son of the local squire.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Soldiers, Brothers, Social life and customs, Veterans, Merchant mariners, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, Brothers, fiction, Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815, fiction, Wessex (england), fiction, Country life, Courtship, Fiction, historical, general, Large type books, English language, Textbooks for foreign speakers, Readers for new literates, Juvenile fiction, Manners and customs, Hardy, thomas, 1840-1928, England, fiction, Great Britain, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature, Urban health, Bibliography, City planning, Health aspects
Places: Great Britain, England, Wessex (England), Wessex
People: Napoleon, Nelson, the Duke of Wellington
Time periods: 1800-1837, 19th century, 1801-1905