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

Published in: 1880

Word count: 113,253 words (≈ about 8 hours)

Copyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.