James Hogg: Collected Novels, Scottish Mystery Tales & Fantasy Stories
Scottish Gothic Mysteries, Folk Romance, and Supernatural Tales of Identity and GuiltBy James Hogg
Length60h 30m
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James Hogg: Collected Novels, Scottish Mystery Tales & Fantasy Stories gathers the remarkable fiction of a writer who transformed Scottish oral tradition, folk belief, and religious controversy into psychologically intricate narrative. Centered on Hogg's best-known achievement, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, the collection also evokes his broader range through historical romance, supernatural episode, comic grotesquerie, and tales shaped by the landscapes and dialects of rural Scotland. Hogg's shifting narrators, embedded documents, prophetic visions, and deliberate uncertainty place him at a crucial intersection of Romanticism, Gothic fiction, and the developing psychological novel. His work continually unsettles the boundaries between divine election and human responsibility, madness and revelation, truth and storytelling. Born in rural Ettrick and largely self-educated, James Hogg drew upon shepherd culture, Scots song, balladry, Calvinist theology, and the intellectual ferment of early nineteenth-century Edinburgh. His intimate knowledge of Highland and Border communities gave his fiction an authority distinct from that of more metropolitan Romantics, while his literary associations—including his connection with Sir Walter Scott—helped bring vernacular Scottish experience into national literature. Hogg's own religious imagination, marked by both fascination and skepticism, profoundly informs these tales. This volume is recommended to readers interested in Gothic literature, Scottish cultural history, Romantic experimentation, and the origins of modern narrative unreliability. It offers both the pleasures of atmospheric storytelling and the rewards of sustained intellectual inquiry, revealing Hogg as an inventive, unsettling, and still strikingly contemporary author.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length60 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 22, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Traditions of Lancashire (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)
2James Hogg: Collected Novels, Scottish Mystery Tales & Fantasy Stories
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)
16The Brownie of Bodsbeck (pt. 1)
17The Brownie of Bodsbeck (pt. 2)
18The Brownie of Bodsbeck (pt. 3)
19Rob Dodds
20Mr Adamson of Laverhope
21The Prodigal Son
22The School of Misfortune
23George Dobsonʼs Expedition to Hell
24The Souters of Selkirk
25The Laird of Cassway
26Tibby Hyslopʼs Dream
27Mary Burnet
28The Brownie of the Black Haggs
29The Laird of Wineholm
30Window Watʼs Courtship
31A Strange Secret
32The Marvellous Doctor
33The Witches of Traquair
34Sheep
35Prayers
36Odd Characters
37Nancy Chisholm
38Snow-Storms
39The Shepherdʼs Dog
40The Expedition To Hell
41The Mysterious Bride
42The Wool-Gatherer (pt. 1)
43The Wool-Gatherer (pt. 2)
44The Hunt Of Eildon
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