- Fiction, History, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Soldiers
Set against a backdrop of the Napoleonic wars, this is a novel about a young woman and the three very different suitors who vie for her hand. Two of the men are brothers involved in the fighting, one an easygoing sailor, the other an honest and diffident trumpet major, the third suitor being the cowardly son of the local squire.
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Classical in form, earnest, cool and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Thomas Hardy
- First published
- 1880
- Pages
- 373
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co., Macmillan, St. Martin's Press, IndyPublish.com
- Editions
- 122
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780742627895
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“In the days of high-waisted and muslin-gowned women, when the vast amount of soldiering going on in the country was a cause of much trembling to the sex, there lived in a village near the Wessex coast two ladies of good report, though unfortunately of limited means.”
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored trag
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