Download or read book The Trumpet Major Illustrated written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.