THE THREE PERILS OF MAN: War, Women and Witchcraft (Scottish Classic)
A Scottish Border Romance of War, Romantic Intrigue, and Uncanny EnchantmentBy James Hogg
Length22h 26m
About this audiobook
James Hogg's *The Three Perils of Man* (1822) is an expansive Scottish historical romance organized around its titular dangers—war, women, and witchcraft. Set against the turbulent world of medieval Scotland, the novel intertwines martial adventure, courtship, betrayal, religious anxiety, and supernatural intervention, moving between comic, tragic, and grotesque registers. Hogg draws upon Border balladry, oral storytelling, folkloric belief, and the conventions of Gothic fiction, while also parodying the grand historical narratives associated with Walter Scott. Its episodic structure and shifting tonalities create a deliberately unruly work in which human desire and political violence are continually shadowed by the uncanny. The result is at once an imaginative chronicle of Scottish identity and a searching examination of the ways communities explain suffering through gendered prejudice, warfare, and belief in magic. Born in the Scottish Borders, Hogg was a shepherd, poet, songwriter, and self-taught man of letters whose intimate knowledge of rural speech and traditional culture profoundly shaped his fiction. His literary career developed within the Romantic revival of Scottish history and folklore, yet his experience outside elite literary institutions encouraged a distinctive skepticism toward authority and polished historical mythmaking. Hogg's fascination with oral narratives, religious controversy, and popular superstition informs the novel's lively voices and competing versions of truth. This richly atmospheric and formally adventurous book will reward readers of Scottish literature, Romanticism, Gothic fiction, and historical narrative. It is especially recommended for those seeking a work that combines vigorous storytelling with intellectual unease, revealing how legend, violence, and social power shape both personal destiny and national memory.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, Literary Classics
Length22 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 19, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Mary Stuart's Fortune and End: The Monastery & The Abbot (Annotated)
19Chapter IV
2Volume I:
20Chapter V
3Chapter I
21Chapter VI
4Chapter II
22Chapter VII
5Chapter III
23Chapter VIII
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6Chapter IV
24Volume III:
7Chapter V
25Chapter I
8Chapter VI
26Chapter II
9Chapter VII
27Chapter III
10Chapter VIII
28Chapter IV
11Chapter IX
29Chapter V
12Chapter X
30Chapter VI
13Chapter XI
31Chapter VII
14Chapter XII
32Chapter VIII
15Volume II:
33Chapter IX
16Chapter I
34Chapter X
17Chapter II
35Chapter XI
18Chapter III
36Chapter XII
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