Books with title The Toy Trumpet

Mother Nature has unleashed a fury that knows no bounds. Governments around the globe are entrenched in chaos as fundamentalist and homegrown factions plot revolution. The European Union is becoming an economic superpower without a conscience. Hidden agendas threaten to destroy the Constitution itself. A presidential election looms as discontented Americans call out for change. Congress teeters on the precipice of anarchy. Retired Colonel Giacomo DeLaurentis is forced back into service when a murder attempt puts his political activist sister in a coma. Letters and a stolen journal from his deceased father—the “messenger from God”—are brought to light, connecting family events to the peril of the planet. As all hell (quite literally) breaks loose, Giacomo has premonitions like his father once did. When his paranormal gift reveals the impending assassination of the President of the United States, he takes action, but first, he must stop those who wish to destroy a prophecy of old and its heirs. Giacomo’s investigation crosses two continents and four countries as the nexus of the threat emerges—a secret organization with members in the top echelons of every major government and the Vatican. Its goal: world domination.

The Trumpet-Major is a novel by Thomas Hardy published in 1880, and his only historical novel. It concerns the heroine, Anne Garland, being pursued by three suitors: John Loveday, the eponymous trumpet major in a British regiment, honest and loyal; his brother Bob, a flighty sailor; and Festus Derriman, the cowardly nephew of the local squire. Unusually for a Hardy novel, the ending is not entirely tragic; however, there remains an ominous element in the probable fate of one of the main characters. (Excerpt from Google)

It's Trumpet's birthday, but he is feeling rather out of sorts…. and soon a bit of bickering with his sister Tilly escalates into a giant tantrum! ""Calm down, Trumpet!"" everyone cautions him, and his mother teaches him to count to ten. Eventually, Trumpet manages to tame his temper. But when his mum loses her own temper, it's Trumpet and his friends who get the last laugh! Another delightful picture book from the dynamic duo who created GILBERT THE GREAT, this funny, charming story is sure to be a winner with toddlers and parents alike.

This edition incorporates an original introduction from Moorside Press, including a biography, a critical discussion of Hardy's place in the history of British Literature and a short contextual discussion of the book.Published in 1880 and serialised in the magazine Good Works, The Trumpet Major was Hardy's seventh novel. The plot is comparatively spartan with a weak heroine trying to choose between two brothers, John Loveday, the eponymous Trumpet Major in a British regiment, and Bob Loveday or serves in the Royal Navy. A third suitor, Festus Derriman, a nephew of the local squire, finds it difficult to match up to the strength of his rivals.Despite its popularity, The Trumpet Major seems to have been designed purely as a money-making stop-gap, using the Napoleonic War as a handy setting in which to present a standard pot-boiler. It was turned down by Leslie Stephen for the Cornhill Magazine and also by Macmillan Magazine, even though Hardy seems to have toned down his more forthright approaches from the previous novels. That said, with serialisation and published volumes both sides of the Atlantic, it secured him around £1,000 in the year.

Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements. 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 desire and conflicting loyalties on systematized versions of history.