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THE WAVERLEY NOVELS: XXI, WOODSTOCK. (original 1826; edition 1901)

by Bart Scott, Walter Sir.

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Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one (1826) is a historical novel by Walter Scott. Set just after the English Civil War, it was inspired by the legend of the Good Devil of Woodstock, which in 1649 supposedly tormented parliamentary commissioners who had taken possession of a royal residence at Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The story deals with the escape of Charles II in 1652, during the Commonwealth, and his final triumphant entry into London on 29 May 1660.… (more)
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Title:THE WAVERLEY NOVELS: XXI, WOODSTOCK.
Authors:Bart Scott, Walter Sir.
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Woodstock by Sir Walter Scott (Author) (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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Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one (1826) is a historical novel by Walter Scott. Set just after the English Civil War, it was inspired by the legend of the Good Devil of Woodstock, which in 1649 supposedly tormented parliamentary commissioners who had taken possession of a royal residence at Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The story deals with the escape of Charles II in 1652, during the Commonwealth, and his final triumphant entry into London on 29 May 1660.

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