Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Everyman's Library Classics Series) - Hardcover

Hogg, James

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9780679417323: Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Everyman's Library Classics Series)

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ISBN 10: 067941732X ISBN 13: 9780679417323

Publisher: Everyman's Library USA, 1992

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Robert is a difficult and disturbed young man. He turns to his Calvinist faith for solace but finds it hard to get along with other people. After he falls in with the mysterious and charming Gil-Martin, his actions become more and more extreme. He convinces himself that he is one of the chosen few and that, therefore, all his actions are right and good . . . even murder.

James Hogg ('the Ettrick Shepherd') was a poet, novelist, and farmer whose work was discovered by Sir Walter Scott and admired by writers as different as Wordsworth and Byron. His most famous book, The Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824), is striking in its use of Calvinist doctrine, demonology, and a highly modern psychological perception to tell the story of the criminal Colwan, deluded by occult forces into thinking he represents an instrument of divine justice and vengeance.

Introduction by Roger Lewis

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We are left to our own imaginations and our own devices to piece together what exactly happened in and around the lands of Delcastle in the early 1700s. This, in short, is the essence of Hogg's genius. . . . [Hogg] will take his place beside James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Dostoevsky and D. H. Lawrence. If you have read him, read him again in this new, unedited, and thoroughly annotated version. If you've never read him, you should.

" "The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner" retains its place as an astonishing 'classic' of nineteenth-century fiction." -- Rhona Brown, "Scotia"

" The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner retains its place as an astonishing 'classic' of nineteenth-century fiction." -- Rhona Brown, Scotia

" "The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner" retains its place as an astonishing 'classic' of nineteenth-century fiction." -- Rhona Brown, "Scotia"

"We are left to our own imaginations and our own devices to piece together what exactly happened in and around the lands of Delcastle in the early 1700s. This, in short, is the essence of Hogg's genius.... [Hogg] will take his place beside James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Dostoevsky and D. H. Lawrence. If you have read him, read him again in this new, unedited, and thoroughly annotated version. If you've never read him, you should." -- Kay Gardner, "AB Bookman's Weekly"

"The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner" retains its place as an astonishing 'classic' of nineteenth-century fiction.--Rhona Brown"Scotia" (01/01/0001)

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