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One of the supreme masterpieces of Romantic fiction and Scottish literature, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a terrifying tale of murder and amorality, and of one man's descent into madness and despair. James Hogg's sardonic novel follows a young... Read Full Overview

One of the supreme masterpieces of Romantic fiction and Scottish literature, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a terrifying tale of murder and amorality, and of one man's descent into madness and despair. James Hogg's sardonic novel follows a young... Read Full Overview

James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a Scottish classic, a quintessentially Gothic tale of psychological horror, and a relentless attack on Calvinist dogma. The Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by... Read Full Overview

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, (Full title, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself: With a detail of curious traditionary facts and other evidence by the editor) is a novel by the Scottish author James Hogg, published... Read Full Overview

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself: With a detail of curious traditionary facts and other evidence by the editor is a novel by the Scottish author James Hogg, published anonymously in 1824.

James Hogg was an 18th century Scottish poet who wrote this memoir near the end of his life.

A comic and terrifying novel about a man haunted by the Devil in the form of his own evil double.

James Hogg (1770-1835) was a Scottish poet, novelist, and farmer whose work was discovered by Sir Walter Scott and admired by writers as different as Wordsworth... Read Full Overview

James Hogg was a Scottish author known primarily for his poetry, short stories, ballads, songs and historical narratives. Raised by a tenant farmer in the Ettrick hills of Scotland, Hogg was mostly self-educated, teaching himself to read with only the Bible, and developing... Read Full Overview

THE ONLY EDITION with EVERY WORD on the SAME PAGE, on the SAME LINE, and practically the SAME PLACE as in the 1824 original-with "An Afterword" revealing secrets of the curse of the memoir...

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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

written by himself

with a detail of curious traditionary facts, and other evidence, by the editor

James Hogg

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, (Full title,... Read Full Overview

My life has been a life of trouble and turmoil of change and vicissitude; of anger and exultation; of sorrow and of vengeance. My sorrows have all been for a slighted gospel, and my vengeance has been wreaked on its adversaries. Therefore, in the might of Heaven, I will sit down... Read Full Overview

"A real work of imagination, ponderated and achieved." -- Robert Louis Stevenson

A TLS International Book of the Year(TLS, Dec 7, 2001)This now-famous book was given a hostile reception when it first appeared in 1824. It was not reprinted until the late 1830s, when a heavily bowdlerised version was included in a posthumous edition of Hogg's collected Tales... Read Full Overview