Woodstock: or, The Cavalier

Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Salvator Rosa and John Constable. Woodstock in 1651: the royal lodge is seized by Parliament's commissioners, an old cavalier and his daughter hold on inside it, and the young Charles Stuart is hiding in the neighbourhood under another name. Scott built the novel round the real Woodstock hauntings of 1649, when Cromwell's men were driven out of the house by noises nobody could explain. The ghost is explained; the loyalties are not. Fifty-five plates after Landseer, Constable and others follow the novel into the wood, its hunting scenes and its play of light among the trees.

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E-bog: 16. september 2026