TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hardy,Thomas
TI  - The trumpet-major, John Loveday,: a soldier in the war with Buonaparte, and Robert his brother, first mate in the merchant service
T2  - The new Wessex edition
SN  - 0333168909
U1  - 813.54 
PY  - 1974///]
CY  - [London]
PB  - Macmillan
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 1800-1837
KW  - Fiction
N1  - First published 1880; The Trumpet Major by Thomas Hardy. This edition is an unabridged, paperback reprinting of Hardy's 1880 historical novel. The Trumpet-Major is a novel by Thomas Hardy published in 1880, and his only historical novel. It concerns the heroine, Anne Garland, being pursued by three suitors: John Loveday, the eponymous trumpet major in a British regiment, honest and loyal; his brother Bob, a flighty sailor; and Festus Derriman, the cowardly nephew of the local squire. Unusually for a Hardy novel
ER  -