Description: Further DetailsTitle: WoodstockCondition: NewEAN: 9780748605835ISBN: 9780748605835Publisher: Edinburgh University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/03/2009Item Height: 216mmItem Length: 138mmItem Weight: 926gContributor: Tony Inglis (Edited by), J. H. Alexander (Edited by), David Hewitt (Edited by), Alison Lumsden (Edited by)Language: EnglishDescription: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBAuthor: Walter ScottGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley NovelsTopic: Classic Fiction, FictionRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Woodstock
Title: Woodstock
EAN: 9780748605835
ISBN: 9780748605835
Release Date: 08/03/2009
Release Year: 2009
Contributor: Alison Lumsden (Edited by)
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
Book Title: Woodstock
Number of Pages: 670 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication Year: 2009
Item Height: 1.6 in
Topic: Classics, Literary, Historical
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 32.7 Oz
Item Length: 5.8 in
Author: Walter Scott
Item Width: 8.4 in
Book Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels Ser.
Format: Hardcover
