The Trumpet-Major

by Thomas Hardy · 1880

As invasion fever grips the English coast during the Napoleonic Wars, a miller's steady soldier son and his reckless sailor brother both fall for the same neighboring girl, whose choice between them plays out against the threat of Bonaparte's fleet.

Books mentioned in The Trumpet-Major (1)

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “'This warm day has quite upset me!' There was a regular collapse of the tea-party, like that of the Hamlet play scene.”