TY - BOOK AU - Hardy,Thomas. TI - The Trumpet - Major SN - 9781853262463 PY - 1995/// CY - Hertfordshire PB - Wordsworth Classics KW - England social life and customs, 19th century. KW - Fiction KW - England KW - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815. Soldiers KW - Historical Fiction. Classics N2 - 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 Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements ER -