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The Trumpet-Major and Robert His Brother (English Library)
The TrumpetMajor and Robert His Brother - English Library Author:Thomas Hardy 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 ver... more »sions of history. This edition restores Hardy's original punctuation and removes the bowdlerisms forced upon the text on its initial publication.« less