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Woodstock (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Woodstock (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
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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 previously had been defeated at Worcester.
In the superb portrait of Cromwell we see a self-torturing despot
who attempts to be in full control in the name of religion; in the
rakish Charles we see a man without self-reflection whose own
libertarianism after his restoration to the English throne in 1660
permitted a great burgeoning in scientific enquiry and the arts.
This edition of Woodstock is based on the first, but emended in the
light of readings in the manuscript and proofs that were misread,
and at times deliberately suppressed, as Scott's own hand-written
words were turned into a printed book.
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