The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

✍ Scribed by Hogg, James

• Book ID: 106878522
• Publisher: Penguin
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 149 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780141441535

✦ Synopsis

Review

A sinister, funny, moving tale of demonic possession, murder and religious fanaticism Sunday Telegraph Barmy and scary and predating Jekyll and Hyde. And written by a shepherd who barely read any books. A Scottish classic, a world classic, yet hardly anyone, writers excepted, has actually read it Observer A strange and disturbing novel written by a self-educated Highland shepherd. A gripping and pioneering work that deals with the nature of good, evil and religious fanaticism Daily Express That peerless drama of divided selves and doppelgangers Observer One of the great English gothic novels. Some would say, simply, that it is one of the great novels Daily Mail An extraordinary, irreducible fantasy Observer

Review

"Hogg [is] a writer who assimilated, subverted, and fictionalised the rigid class structures of his day, and whose innovative and varied contributions make him a key Romantic auto/biographer, journalist, and novelist. Peter Garside's edition of Confessions of a Justified Sinner throws a great deal of new light on a familiar text. His introduction... brings together the insights of previous editions and the finest scholarship on Hogg of the past twenty years... Garsides endnotes add immensely to our knowledge of Hogg's most famous book, and cap a scholarly edition that is impressive from start to finish." -- Robert Morrison, Acadia University