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Старший трубач полка
1804 год. Великобритания готовится отразить вторжение французских войск. Прибрежные курортные городки превращаются в военные лагеря, боевые корабли сменили у причалов мирные прогулочные яхты.
А простые обыватели продолжают жить как жили – и зажиточная вдова Марта Гарленд не является исключением. Больше всего она озабочена браком дочери – первой местной красавицы Энн, на руку и сердце которой претендуют сразу трое поклонников: оба сына соседа – старший трубач полка, серьезный и сдержанный Джон Лавдей, и его младший брат, веселый и общительный моряк Боб, – и напыщенный, трусоватый и фатоватый дворянин Фестус Дерриман. Однако гордая Энн пока медлит отдать предп&
А простые обыватели продолжают жить как жили – и зажиточная вдова Марта Гарленд не является исключением. Больше всего она озабочена браком дочери – первой местной красавицы Энн, на руку и сердце которой претендуют сразу трое поклонников: оба сына соседа – старший трубач полка, серьезный и сдержанный Джон Лавдей, и его младший брат, веселый и общительный моряк Боб, – и напыщенный, трусоватый и фатоватый дворянин Фестус Дерриман. Однако гордая Энн пока медлит отдать предп&
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Published February 28, 2024
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Thomas Hardy
2,330 books6,781 followersThomas Hardy, OM, was an English author of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. He regarded himself primarily as a poet and composed novels mainly for financial gain.
The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his 50s, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after The Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
The term cliffhanger is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's serial novel A Pair of Blue Eyes in 1873. In the novel, Hardy chose to leave one of his protagonists, Knight, literally hanging off a cliff staring into the stony eyes of a trilobite embedded in the rock that has been dead for millions of years. This became the archetypal — and literal — cliff-hanger of Victorian prose.
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The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his 50s, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after The Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
The term cliffhanger is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's serial novel A Pair of Blue Eyes in 1873. In the novel, Hardy chose to leave one of his protagonists, Knight, literally hanging off a cliff staring into the stony eyes of a trilobite embedded in the rock that has been dead for millions of years. This became the archetypal — and literal — cliff-hanger of Victorian prose.
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