The Trumpet-Major: A Mill, a Camp, and the Fear of Buonaparte
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by John Constable, George Morland and Thomas Cole. Wessex, 1804: Napoleon's army is across the Channel, the beacons are laid, the militia is drilling on the down, and two brothers — a trumpet-major and a sailor — are in love with the miller's daughter. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; he built this from the local memories of the invasion scare and from the King's actual visits to Weymouth, and the last line about where the trumpet-major went is one of the quietest endings in English. Fifty-five plates by painters including Constable and Müller follow the mills, downs and Channel light of Hardy's Wessex, 1767 to 1844.
Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by John Constable, George Morland and Thomas Cole. Wessex, 1804: Napoleon's army is across the Channel, the beacons are laid, the militia is drilling on the down, and two brothers — a trumpet-major and a sailor — are in love with the miller's daug...
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Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. Born in Dorset, he worked as an architect in London before returning to the region to write, setting much of his fiction in the semi-fictional region of Wessex. His works include A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Woodlanders, Under the Greenwood Tree, and the story collections Wessex Tales and Life's Little Ironies.
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. Born in Dorset, he worked as an architect in London before returning to the region to write, setting much of his fiction in the semi-fictional region of Wessex. His works include A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Woodlanders, Under the Greenwood T...
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