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Woodstock
Hardcover
$165.00
By Walter Scott, Tony Inglis (Editor), J. H. Alexander (Editor), David Hewitt (Editor), Alison Lumsden (Editor)
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Woodstock opens in farce, yet it is one of Scott's darkest novels. It deals with revolution, to Scott the most disturbing of all subjects: 'it appears that every step we made towards liberty, has but brought us in view of more terrific perils'. Written during the financial crisis which led to his insolvency in January 1826, the novel, Scott feared, 'would not stand the test'. Yet it does: it is set in England in 1651 as Parliamentary forces hunt the fugitive Charles Stewart who days previou...