Author | Sir Walter Scott |
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Language | English |
Series | Waverley Novels |
Genre | Historical novel |
Publisher | Archibald Constable and Co. (Edinburgh); Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green]] (London) |
Publication date | 1826 |
Publication place | Scotland |
Media type | |
Pages | 417 (Edinburgh Edition, 2009) |
Preceded by | The Talisman |
Followed by | Chronicles of the Canongate |
Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one (1826) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. 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.