by James Hogg · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140431988
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«The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner» is the gothic novel by James Hogg, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (256 pages, in English).
The novel follows the testimony of Robert, a young Scotsman convinced of his predestination to salvation, whose life takes a turn under the influence of a mysterious diabolical double. The book combines contemporary chronicles with the protagonist's personal confession, delving into the struggle between good and evil and the religious anxieties of eighteenth-century Scotland.
This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction and editing by John Wain. The work was originally published in 1824.
Recommended for readers of British classics and early works of psychological horror.
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).
