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Woodstock

Woodstock

Walter Scott

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Press Holdings International
Año de edición:
2002
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Ficción clásica
ISBN:
9781410201614
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An adventurous story centering upon the escape of Charles II from England after the battle of Worcester. The work was written when misfortunes were heaping themselves upon the author: his financial ruin, the death of his wife, and the grievous illness of his beloved grandson. Yet he stuck to his work and wrote Woodstock in three months.

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