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Bezig met laden... The Trumpet-Major (Oxford World's Classics) (origineel 1880; editie 1999)door Thomas Hardy (Auteur), Richard Nemesvari (Redacteur)
Informatie over het werkThe Trumpet-Major door Thomas Hardy (1880)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I am a Hardy fan, but this one has been my least favorite. It is also Hardy's only foray into historical fiction. The time period is the Napoleonic Wars and Weymouth is preparing for an invasion by Napoleonic forces. The story centers around Anne Garland, who is pursued by three suitors. We do see some action with Wellington during the Peninsular War and one of the suitors serves with Nelson at Trafalgar. Meh ( ) A three way love story set during the years of the Napoleonic Wars. Hardy has combined thorough-going research with his gently ironic approach to characters. He writes to arouse our pity, affection and affinity with these fine simple people caught up at the mercy of external events, and with their own human stories of love and survival. Great absorbing reading. Continuing my dive into the prose of Hardy, this was a bit of an oddity. Because it takes place in the Napoleonic era, I kept having a Jane Austen type vibe but it was clearly not a comedy of manners. He played a little with that convention (A Misunderstanding, An Overheard Conversation) but it took a number of twists and turns that were much more Hardy. I found myself very frustrated by most of the major characters at one time or another, constantly with the odious creep Festus, but I did get very swept up in it and absolutely did not see things ending the way it did. An interesting read and Hardy continues to surprise me. One thing I did find here was there was a less deft handling of Anne than of some other of his women characters. She didn't come off so well, a bit of a hemmer and hawer, though I did appreciate her defiance of Festus. Just one more in my Hardy collection, though I think I have some short stories left. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: From the acclaimed author of works such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far From the Madding Crowd comes the novel The Trumpet-Major, which combines the backdrop of wartime with the aching intensity of Harding's best work about love relationships. Fans of historical fiction that is humanized by plotlines that focus on personal relationships should heed the call of The Trumpet-Major. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.8Literature English English fiction Victorian period 1837-1900LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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