A new edition of the "greatest novel of Scotland" James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a Scottish classic, a quintessentially Gothic tale of psychological horror, and a relentless attack on Calvinist dogma. The Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Karl Miller. Robert Wringham's family is composed of a dissolute father and brother, a pious mother, and a rival father in the person of a fanatical Calvinist minister. He comes to believe that he is one of the elect, predestined to be saved, while others are...
A new edition of the "greatest novel of Scotland" James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a Scotti...
Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg's most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Its experimental medley of novellas, tales, poems and sketches posed a lively alternative to the dominant form of the historical novel established by Walter Scott.The collection includes terse masterpieces of mystery and the uncanny, virtuoso improvisations on folktale themes, and two brilliant autobiographical novellas, The Renowned Adventures of Basil Lee and Love Adventures of Mr George Cochrane.This paperback edition takes account of newly-discovered information about...
Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg's most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Its experimental medley of no...
Although portrayed as the 'boozing buffoon' of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Hogg (both as the celebrated Ettrick Shepherd and anonymously) was a key contributor of songs, narrative poems, tales and reviews to the liveliest of all early nineteenth-century periodicals. The present volume includes several items hitherto published only in Blackwood's, and ranges from the infamous 'Chaldee Manuscript' to newly-identified items such as a Scottish commemoration of the coronation of George IV. The volume also includes works Hogg intended for Blackwood's but which are now published for the first...
Although portrayed as the 'boozing buffoon' of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Hogg (both as the celebrated Ettrick Shepherd and anonymously) was a ke...
An account of a man haunted by the Devil in the form of his own evil double. Hogg's 1824 novel, set in 17th century Scotland, anticipates Dostoevsky's great dramas of sin, self-accusation and damnation by half a century.
An account of a man haunted by the Devil in the form of his own evil double. Hogg's 1824 novel, set in 17th century Scotland, anticipates Dostoevsky's...
One of the supreme masterpieces of Romantic fiction and Scottish literature, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a terrifying tale of murder and amorality, and of one man's descent into madness and despair. James Hogg's sardonic novel follows a young man who, falling under the spell of a mysterious stranger who bears an uncanny likeness to himself, embarks on a career as a serial murderer. The memoirs are presented by a narrator whose attempts to explain the story only succeed in intensifying its more baffling and bizarre aspects. Is the young man the victim...
One of the supreme masterpieces of Romantic fiction and Scottish literature, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a t...
"Adrian Hunter's thorough introduction and detailed annotations make this an essential edition for all students of Hogg's great novel." -- Duncan Wu, St. Catherine's College, Oxford University
"Adrian Hunter's thorough introduction and detailed annotations make this an essential edition for all students of Hogg's great novel." -- Duncan Wu, ...
This volume provides access to the relevant material in the various musical collections to which Hogg refers in his 1831 head notes, thus allowing twenty-first century readers to see in facsimile what Hogg himself saw. This procedure provides a broader context - in literary and musical terms - in which to enhance our understanding of the reception of Hogg's songs during his lifetime.
This volume provides access to the relevant material in the various musical collections to which Hogg refers in his 1831 head notes, thus allowing twe...
THE ONLY EDITION with EVERY WORD on the SAME PAGE, on the SAME LINE, and practically the SAME PLACE as in the 1824 original-with "An Afterword" revealing secrets of the curse of the memoir...
Decode the Secrets-Discover What Critics Have Overlooked...
THIS EDITION reveals secrets of the curse overlooked by critics and scholars for nearly 200 years, which include:
word/number riddles, such as how the word "seventeen" appears only once in the entire book-precisely on page 17...
mysterious correlations of words, numbers, and biblical verses;
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THE ONLY EDITION with EVERY WORD on the SAME PAGE, on the SAME LINE, and practically the SAME PLACE as in the 1824 original-with "An Afterwo...
