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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,... read more
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In August 1823 Blackwood's Magazine, the celebrated literary periodical which was the mouthpiece of an important group of Edinburgh literati, published a letter, under the heading 'A Scots Mummy', which described the digging up of a suicide's grave.
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- James Hogg (Author)
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