The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (The Collected Works of James Hogg) (Dover Thrift Editions) (Canons)

by James Hogg

John Carey

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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, while recognizing the stranger as Satan, is prevented by the subtlety of the novel's structure from finally deciding whether, for all his vividness and wit, he is more than a figment of the boy's imagination. This edition reprints the text of the unexpurgated first edition of 1824, later 'corrected' in an attempt to placate the Calvinists.
  • ISBN10 0192835904
  • ISBN13 9780192835901
  • Publish Date 1 August 1999 (first published March 1969)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 27 November 2009
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oxford University Press
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 306
  • Language English