Collected Works of James Hogg: Novels, Scottish Mystery Tales & Fantasy Stories
Scottish Gothic, Border Folklore, and Tales of Divided SelvesBy James Hogg
Length60h 28m
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Collected Works of James Hogg: Novels, Scottish Mystery Tales & Fantasy Stories presents the remarkable range of a writer who fused Border folklore, Gothic unease, religious speculation, and psychological ambiguity. Hogg's fiction moves between pastoral realism and the supernatural, drawing upon oral storytelling while experimenting with unreliable narrators, framed narratives, shifting voices, and darkly comic reversals. Its mysteries and fantasies are not merely entertainments: they investigate guilt, predestination, divided identity, and the unstable boundary between visionary experience and madness. In this literary context, Hogg stands as a vital, sometimes underappreciated figure of Scottish Romanticism, whose imaginative boldness anticipates later psychological and fantastic fiction. Born in 1770 and raised in the Ettrick Valley, Hogg was largely self-educated and worked as a shepherd before becoming a poet, editor, and prose writer. His intimate knowledge of rural speech, Highland and Border traditions, balladry, and Calvinist culture profoundly shaped his art. Though associated with Walter Scott and celebrated as the "Ettrick Shepherd," Hogg developed a distinctive literary independence, transforming inherited legends and theological anxieties into formally experimental narratives. His work reflects both the intellectual energies of the Romantic period and the social tensions of Scotland's changing literary culture. This collection is recommended to readers interested in Gothic fiction, Scottish literature, folklore, and the origins of modern narrative experimentation. It offers an especially rewarding encounter with an author whose humor, eeriness, and moral complexity challenge conventional distinctions between realism and fantasy. Readers familiar with Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, or the Gothic tradition will find Hogg an essential and surprisingly contemporary discovery.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length60 hrs 28 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 19, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
110 Iconic Gilded Age Novels
2Novels
3The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (pt. 1)
4The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (pt. 2)
5The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (pt. 3)
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6The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (pt. 4)
7The Three Perils of Man - War, Women and Witchcraft: A Border Romance (pt. 1)
8The Three Perils of Man - War, Women and Witchcraft: A Border Romance (pt. 2)
9The Three Perils of Man - War, Women and Witchcraft: A Border Romance (pt. 3)
10The Three Perils of Man - War, Women and Witchcraft: A Border Romance (pt. 4)
11The Three Perils of Man - War, Women and Witchcraft: A Border Romance (pt. 5)
12The Three Perils of Man - War, Women and Witchcraft: A Border Romance (pt. 6)
13The Three Perils of Man - War, Women and Witchcraft: A Border Romance (pt. 7)
14The Three Perils of Man - War, Women and Witchcraft: A Border Romance (pt. 8)
15The Three Perils of Man - War, Women and Witchcraft: A Border Romance (pt. 9)
16Short Stories
17The Brownie of Bodsbeck (pt. 1)
18The Brownie of Bodsbeck (pt. 2)
19The Brownie of Bodsbeck (pt. 3)
20The Shepherdʼs Calendar
21Rob Dodds
22Mr Adamson of Laverhope
23The Prodigal Son
24The School of Misfortune
25George Dobsonʼs Expedition to Hell
26The Souters of Selkirk
27The Laird of Cassway
28Tibby Hyslopʼs Dream
29Mary Burnet
30The Brownie of the Black Haggs
31The Laird of Wineholm
32Window Watʼs Courtship
33A Strange Secret
34The Marvellous Doctor
35The Witches of Traquair
36Sheep
37Prayers
38Odd Characters
39Nancy Chisholm
40Snow-Storms
41The Shepherdʼs Dog
42The Expedition To Hell
43The Mysterious Bride
44The Wool-Gatherer (pt. 1)
45The Wool-Gatherer (pt. 2)
46The Hunt Of Eildon
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