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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by James Hogg
Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist parentage by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The stranger assures the boy that no sin can affect the salvation of an elect person. The reader,... (learn more about this book)
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Altrive Tales (Stirling/South Carolina Edition of James Hogg)
by James Hogg
Review of the hardback edition: "This is a fascinating volume, full of surprises, challenges and confirmationsÂ… Gillian Hughes's editorial activities are exemplary: the textual decisions and apparatus inspire confidence and assent, and the genesis of the Tales is pieced together from... (learn more about this book)
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The Three Perils of Man: War, Women and Witchcraft (Canongate Classics)
by James Hogg
Ranging from Galloway to Northumberland, the main focus of the story is to be found in the Scottish Borders. Hogg knew and loved the Borders well, and the book is full of their oral tradition and local lore. James Hogg is the author of "Confessions of a Justified Sinner". (learn more about this book)
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The Shepherd's Calendar
by James Hogg
James Hogg is one of the acknowledged masters of the short story. Some of his best stories appeared in The Shepherd's Calendar, a work of the 1820s in which he sets out to re-create on paper the manner and the content of the traditional oral storytelling of Ettrick Forest, the remote and... (learn more about this book)
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Mountain Bard: James Hogg (Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg)
by James Hogg
Hogg grew up in rural Ettrick Forest in a notable family of tradition-bearers, and in his first major poetry collection The Mountain Bard of 1807 he claims his rightful position at the centre of that culture. Whereas Scott collected the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Hogg was the sole... (learn more about this book)
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Tales of the Wars of Montrose
by James Hogg
This collection of short stories focuses on the Scottish civil war of 1644-45, in which the Marquis of Montrose led his royalist forces in a series of stunning victories against the odds before his final defeat at Philiphaugh. Each of Hogg's five tales centres on one of the five major battles of... (learn more about this book)
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