The Brownie of Bodsbeck (Scottish Classic) - Complete Edition: Volume 1&2
A Scottish Borders Tale of Covenanter Persecution, Folklore, and FaithBy James Hogg
Length6h 58m
About this audiobook
James Hogg's The Brownie of Bodsbeck (1818) is a historical novel set in the Scottish Borders during the brutal "Killing Time," when Covenanters resisted the Stuart monarchy and suffered religious persecution. Combining documentary history with folklore, romance, adventure, and supernatural suggestion, Hogg follows figures caught between loyalty, conscience, and survival, while the mysterious brownie of the title embodies the region's imaginative and moral inheritance. The two-volume complete edition preserves the work's expansive design, its vivid Scots idiom, lyrical passages, shifting narrative perspectives, and integration of traditional songs and oral storytelling. In literary context, the novel stands between the Gothic tradition, the historical romance associated with Walter Scott, and an emerging Scottish national literature attentive to popular memory rather than merely aristocratic history. Hogg (1770–1835), celebrated as the "Ettrick Shepherd," was largely self-educated and drew deeply upon the ballads, legends, religious culture, and speech of the Scottish Borders. His experience of rural life and his familiarity with oral tradition gave him an unusually intimate understanding of communities often marginalized by polished literary histories. His Nonconformist inheritance and interest in the Covenanters also enabled him to treat the seventeenth-century conflicts as living ethical questions rather than distant political events. Hogg's friendship and rivalry with literary contemporaries, especially Scott, further shaped his determination to make vernacular Scottish experience central to serious fiction. This edition is recommended to readers interested in Scottish literature, historical fiction, Gothic narrative, religious history, and the relationship between oral tradition and print culture. It offers both a compelling story of persecution and resistance and a formally adventurous study of how national memory is created. Readers willing to engage with its Scots vocabulary, interpolated songs, and deliberately unstable blend of fact and legend will discover a vigorous, humane, and intellectually distinctive novel that substantially enlarges the canon of nineteenth-century Scottish writing.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, Literary Classics
Length6 hrs 58 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 19, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE THREE PERILS OF MAN: War, Women and Witchcraft (Scottish Classic)
11Chapter IX
2Volume I:
12Chapter X
3Chapter I
13Chapter XI
4Chapter II
14Chapter XII
5Chapter III
15Volume II:
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6Chapter IV
16Chapter I
7Chapter V
17Chapter II
8Chapter VI
18Chapter III
9Chapter VII
19Chapter IV
10Chapter VIII
20Chapter V
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