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Special offer. Thomas Hardy: The Trumpet-Major

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Thomas Hardy: The Trumpet-Major

Special offer. Thomas Hardy: The Trumpet-Major

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War threatens the rich, green fields of Wessex in Hardy's historical novel, The Trumpet-Major. The Napoleonic Wars are at their height, and upheaval and uncertainty plague British soil. In the midst of it all the impoverished beauty Anne Garland finds her

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Thomas Hardy: The Trumpet Major (Unabridged)
Work length10:48:29
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London, United Kingdom
The Trumpet Major
Track length9:00
At the end of this systematic proceeding…
Track length8:31
Chapter 2: Somebody Knocks and Comes In
Track length15:24
Chapter 3: The Mill Becomes an Important…
Track length15:16
Chapter 4: Who were Present at the Miller's…
Track length6:43
Chapter 5: The Song and the Stranger
Track length15:46
Chapter 6: Old Mr. Derriman of Oxwell Hall
Track length6:18
Anne passed under the arched gateway…
Track length9:06
Anne became a little more dignified…
Track length9:15
Chapter 7: How They Talked in the Pastures
Track length7:59
Chapter 8: Anne Makes a Circuit of the Camp
Track length15:31
Chapter 9: Anne is Kindly Fetched…
Track length10:41
The absence of Uncle Benjy had, in fact…
Track length13:10
Chapter 10: The Match-Making Virtues…
Track length10:49
Anne moved on with her mother…
Track length2:40
Chapter 11: Our People are Affected…
Track length9:22
The spot on which they had finally chosen…
Track length10:22
Chapter 12: How Everybody Great and Small…
Track length12:46
Chapter 13: The Conversation in the Crowd
Track length10:35
Chapter 14: Later in the Evening of the Same Day
Track length8:17
Chapter 15: 'Captain' Bob Loveday…
Track length9:38
David had only just got the table clear…
Track length12:01
Chapter 16: They Make Ready for the Illustrious…
Track length9:10
He entered Casterbridge between twelve and one…
Track length9:26
Chapter 17: Two Fainting Fits and a Bewilderment
Track length12:36
Chapter 18: The Night After the Arrival
Track length10:34
Chapter 19: Miss Johnson's Behaviour Causes…
Track length8:31
His father and David had returned with no news.
Track length9:26
Chapter 20: How They Lessened the Effect…
Track length13:23
Chapter 21: 'Upon the Hill He Turned'
Track length3:51
While Mr. and Mrs. Loveday, Anne, and Bob…
Track length8:21
Chapter 22: The Two Households United
Track length11:29
His obsequious bearing was continued…
Track length11:03
Chapter 23: Military Preparations…
Track length10:45
On drawing near, they saw through the boughs…
Track length10:03
Chapter 24: A Letter, A Visitor, and a Tin Box
Track length10:14
Chapter 25: Festus Shows His Love
Track length12:27
Chapter 26: The Alarm
Track length3:09
In forecasting his grand venture…
Track length11:38
He slowly mounted, and Uncle Benjy…
Track length11:21
Chapter 27: Danger to Anne
Track length15:44
Chapter 28: Anne Does Wonders
Track length9:37
The trumpet-major spent the whole afternoon…
Track length13:58
Chapter 29: A Dissembler
Track length8:31
Chapter 30: At the Theatre Royal
Track length5:54
The curtain rose and the play began.
Track length11:15
Chapter 31: Midnight Visitors
Track length14:02
Chapter 32: Deliverance
Track length12:23
Chapter 33: Discovery Turns the Scale
Track length12:21
Bob heard all this with a manner…
Track length12:29
Chapter 34: A Speck on the Sea
Track length12:06
The Victory was fast dropping away.
Track length8:10
Chapter 35: A Sailor Enters
Track length14:21
Chapter 36: Derriman Sees Chances
Track length11:11
Chapter 37: Reaction
Track length9:54
But these discourses were not without their effect…
Track length8:30
Chapter 38: A Delicate Situation
Track length8:39
It is scarcely necessary to state that Anne…
Track length10:16
Chapter 39: Bob Loveday Struts Up and Down
Track length10:28
One fine afternoon she accompanied Molly…
Track length10:25
Chapter 40: A Call on Business
Track length14:57
Chapter 41: John Marches into the Night
Track length6:41
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