The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (The Penguin English Library) - Softcover

Hogg, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014119894X ISBN 13: 9780141198941

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2012

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2012-04-26 Pages: 256 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books The Penguin English Library Edition of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by james Hogg.He was constantly harassed with the idea. that the next time he lifted his eyes. he would to a certainty see that face. the most repulsive to all his feelings of aught the earth containedA nightmarish tale of religious fanaticism and darkness. this chilling classic of the macabre tells the tale of Robert Wringhim. drawn in his moral confusion into committing the most monstrous acts by an evil doppelganger. James Hoggs masterpiece is as troublingly duplicitous as Wringhim himself. and was ignored and bowdlerized before becoming a hugely influential work of Scottish literature.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English. from the eighteenth century and t...

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Review:

[The] Oxford Worlds Classics edition provides concise background information enough to allow the reader to understand the references without feeling that s/hes reading a history book and a glossary and notes which explain any unfamiliar terms or allusions. The informative introduction, by Ian Duncan, Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, sets the book in its historical and literary context, and provides some biographical information on the author. (Leah Galbraith, FictionFan's Book Reviews)

About the Author:

James Hogg (1770-1835) led a troubled life as a writer. Originally a shepherd, he taught himself to write and finally achieved recognition for his epic poem on Mary, Queen of Scots, The Queen's Wake, and was invited to write for the best-selling journal Blackwood's Magazine. However, Hogg soon became a figure of fun and ridicule in the magazine's satirical 'Noctes Ambrosianae', in which the crude and absurd 'Ettrick Shepherd' was openly modelled on him. It is debated whether this was a source of pain and humiliation to the increasingly ostracised Hogg. His masterpiece, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, only achieved recognition some 100 years after publication, but is now one of the most important novels in the Scottish canon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 014119894X
• ISBN 13: 9780141198941
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256