Woodstock (1826)

by Walter Scott

Series: Waverley Novels (1652), Waverley Novels, publication (1826)

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I re-read Woodstock and found I'd quite forgotten how good it was. Full of ridiculous improbabilities, but how little that matters when a book has got atmosphere and gusto.
- from a 25 May 1941 letter to Arthur Greeves, in The collected letters of C.S. Lewis, volume II (

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Waverley Novels (15|1652)

Waverley Novels, publication (1826)

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Woodstock

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1826

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Bevis

Joshua Bletson

Charles II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (as Louis Kerneguy)

Oliver Cromwell

Colonel Desbrough

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Berkshire, England, UK

Oxfordshire, England, UK

Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK

Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK

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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."

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