The Trumpet-Major and Robert His Brother - Softcover

Hardy, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014043142X ISBN 13: 9780140431421

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1985

Synopsis

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

About this title

About the Author

Thomas Hardy was a poet and novelist of the naturalist movement. He trained as an architect. He was a religious man who was also deeply influenced by Darwin and fascinated by ghosts and spirits.During his lifetime, he was best known for his novels. His stories combine nuanced description of natural surroundings with the sense of impending moral crisis. He claimed that poetry was his first love, though, and in recent years his poetry has received much critical acclaim.

From AudioFile

Hearkening back to the Wessex of an earlier Napoleonic period, Hardy's novel creates a homely world of likeable, though sometimes dull folk, anxious to get on with the business of falling in love despite the threat of imminent landing by the French. With a seemingly infinite range of voices Benjamin Whitrow recreates each of them as only this trained English actor could. Hardy and Whitrow combine to create a world of charming local types: the gentle miller and his two sons; the crude but scheming Festus Derriman and his delightfully miserly uncle, old farmer Derriman; and the beautiful object of all their attentions, sweet Anne Garland. For readers used to Hardy's star-crossed characters, this romance is a delightful discovery. P.A.J. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014043142X
• ISBN 13: 9780140431421
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 326