by James Hogg · KONEMANN · tapa dura · ISBN 9783829030090
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«Private Memoirs of a Justified Sinner» is the Gothic novel by James Hogg, published by Konemann in hardback (256 pages, in English).
A novel with multiple narrators where Calvinist fanaticism and predestination intersect with the supernatural. The protagonist, convinced he is saved in advance, is accompanied by a demonic figure who pushes him toward crime, in eighteenth-century Scotland, between psychological horror and criticism of religious dogmatism.
The work was originally published in 1824 and this edition belongs to the Konemann Classics collection.
Aimed at readers of classics and fans of Gothic and psychological fiction who want to read the original text in English.
James Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand, and was largely self-educated through reading. He was a friend of many of the great writers of his day, including Sir Walter Scott, of whom he later wrote an unauthorised biography. He became widely known as the "Ettrick Shepherd", a nickname under which some of his works were published, and the character name he was given in the widely read series Noctes Ambrosianae, published in Blackwood's Magazine. He is best known today for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. His other works include the long poem The Queen's Wake (1813), his collection of songs Jacobite Relics (1819), and his two novels The Three Perils of Man (1822), and The Three Perils of Woman (1823).
