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Confessions Of A Justified Sinner
Av James Hogg
Inbunden, 1992
185 kr
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What connects Frankenstein and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? James Hogg. What connects gothic romance with Freud? James Hogg. What connects theology with psychopathology? James Hogg.A gothic tale of good verses evil, about a pact with Satan and the horrific consequences. It's a chilling tale and cleverly …
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Av James Hogg, Ian Duncan
Häftad, 2010
106 kr
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'We have heard much of the rage of fanaticism in former days, but nothing to this'A wretched young man, 'an outcast in the world', tells the story of his upbringing by a heretical Calvinist minister who leads him to believe that he is one of the elect, predestined for salvation and thus above the …
Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
E-bok, 2006
74 kr
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Brought up by a strict Calvinist pastor, Robert Wringham believes he is one of the elect, predestined for salvation while all others - including his real father and brother - are cursed. Convinced he is indestructible and above the law, Robert commits terrible crimes under the influence of …
Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Av James Hogg
E-bok, 2012
62 kr
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With an essay by David Groves.'He was constantly harassed with the idea, that the next time he lifted his eyes, he would to a certainty see that face, the most repulsive to all his feelings of aught the earth contained'A nightmarish tale of religious fanaticism and darkness, this chilling classic …
Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Av James Hogg, Ian Duncan
E-bok, 2010
72 kr
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''We have heard much of the rage of fanaticism in former days, but nothing to this'' A wretched young man, ''an outcast in the world'', tells the story of his upbringing by a heretical Calvinist minister who leads him to believe that he is one of the elect, predestined for salvation and thus above …
Little Ern
The authorised biography of Ernie Wise
E-bok, 2011, 15+ år
143 kr
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He's the man with short fat hairy legs who kept us laughing for decades, his comic timing sparking perfectly with the genius of his partner Eric Morecambe. Yet little has been known about Ernie's amazing story, until now.Little Ern! takes us from Ernie's childhood in Leeds, where he supported his …
Little Ern
Häftad, 2014, 15+ år
225 kr
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He's the man with short fat hairy legs who kept us laughing for decades, his comic timing sparking perfectly with the genius of his partner Eric Morecambe. Yet little has been known about Ernie's amazing story, until now.Little Ern! takes us from Ernie's childhood in Leeds, where he supported his …
Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Av James Hogg
E-bok, 2015
70 kr
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Robert is a difficult and disturbed young man. He turns to his Calvinist faith for solace but finds it hard to get along with other people. After he falls in with the mysterious and charming Gil-Martin, his actions become more and more extreme. He convinces himself that he is one of the chosen few …
Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Av James Hogg
Häftad, 1970
320 kr
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The Private Memoirs, first published in 1824, is an early psychological novel, in which the phenomena of the split personality and the obsessed character are described with extraordinary insight. Set in the gloomy world of 18th-century Scottish Calvinism, the novel is a story of moral fanaticism, …
Making Leisure Provision for People with Profound Learning and Multiple Disabilities
Av James Hogg, J. Cavet
Häftad, 1995
552 kr
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This book is intended for individuals or organizations (teachers, social workers, psychologists, community nurses, parents and carers) who wish to create leisure opportunities for people with profound and multiple impairments. The text reflects a number of leisure activities based on the authors' …
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Av James Hogg
Häftad, 2019
115 kr
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"A real work of imagination, ponderated and achieved." Robert Louis Stevenson The son of a radical Calvinist minister conducts a crime spree that horrifies eighteenth-century Scottish society in this gripping tale of murder, madness, and demonic possession. According to Robert Wringhim, his …
Shepherd's Calendar
Av James Hogg, Douglas S. Mack
Inbunden, 1995
1759 kr
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A collection of thirteen tales and anecdotes, published for the first time as Hogg intended, and capturing the flavour of Border story-telling.
Three Perils of Woman
Av James Hogg, Colin Groves m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
1607 kr
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Both comical and horrific, The Three Perils of Woman is essentially a combination of two stories on similar themes. One is set in the Highlands following the Battle of Culloden and the other in Hogg's Edinburgh. Daring in its subject matter, the novel touches on such delicate topics as prostitution …
Queer Book
Inbunden, 2007
1759 kr
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‘It will be a grand book for thae Englishers for they winna understand a word of it’Hogg’s boast to William BlackwoodWitty, humorous and comical as the title implies, the eccentric nature of many of the poems collected here nevertheless belies the often serious and moral issues contained within. …
Tales of the Wars of Montrose
Inbunden, 1996
1607 kr
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In Tales of the Wars of Montrose Hogg continues his examination of Scotland's past. Using different narrators and different moods in each of the five tales that comprise the work, Hogg leads the reader into (and eventually out of) a state of anarchy and confusion in his native country.
Lay Sermons
Av James Hogg, Gillian Hughes m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1572 kr
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Lay Sermons offers, playfully, a series of lay sermons on good principles and good breeding - the last thing that one would expect from the pen of Blackwood's Ettrick Shepherd. But a significant part of the joke is that the Shepherd provides lay sermons that combine into a series of wise …
Anecdotes of Scott
Inbunden, 1999
1483 kr
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James Hogg knew Sir Walter Scott well, and after Scott's death in 1832 he wrote an affectionate but frank account of their long friendship. Hogg arranged for his manuscript to be sent to John Gibson Lockhart, Scott's son-in-law and official biographer; but when Lockhart read the manuscript he …
Queen Hynde
Av James Hogg, Suzanne Gilbert m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1607 kr
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Heroic, radical and at times hilarious, Queen Hynde is Ossian with jokes; but Hogg's epic has serious purposes in mind. Its picture of the ancient Scottish past has much in common with stories of King Arthur and Camelot; and Queen Hynde aspires to emulate Paradise Lost as a Christian epic.
Contributions to Annuals and Gift-Books
Av James Hogg, Janette Currie m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1607 kr
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In 1822 Rudolph Ackermann’s Forget Me Not [...] for 1823 established a fashion for handsomely produced and copiously illustrated annual anthologies of short literary works. Books of this kind were designed as Christmas and New Year’s presents, and in the 1820s and 1830s they became a significant …
Winter Evening Tales
Av James Hogg, Ian Duncan
Inbunden, 2002
1607 kr
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Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg’s most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Exhibiting the most complex genesis of any of Hogg’s works, it is the outstanding example of a ‘national’ genre pioneered by him – the miscellaneous collection of popular and …
Jacobite Relics of Scotland
Volume 2
Inbunden, 2003
2140 kr
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James Hogg's Jacobite Relics - originally commissioned by the Highland Society of London in 1817 - is an important addition to The Collected Works of James Hogg. It created a canon for the Jacobite song which had an enormous influence on subsequent collections, and was of great importance in …
Jacobite Relics of Scotland
Volume 1
Inbunden, 2002
2368 kr
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James Hogg's Jacobite Relics - originally commissioned by the Highland Society of London in 1817 - is an important addition to The Collected Works of James Hogg. It created a canon for the Jacobite song which had an enormous influence on subsequent collections, and was of great importance in …
Queen's Wake
A Legendary Tale
Av James Hogg, Douglas S. Mack
Inbunden, 2004
1607 kr
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The Queen's Wake is one of the landmarks of British Romantic poetry. It focuses on the return of Mary, Queen of Scots to Scotland in 1561 to take personal rule of her kingdom after her years in France. In the poem poets and bards hold a poetic competition (a 'wake') in Holyrood Palace to welcome …
Collected Letters of James Hogg, Volume 1, 1800-1819
Inbunden, 2005
1483 kr
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Hogg was a superb letter-writer, and this is the initial volume of the first collected edition of his letters (to be completed in three volumes). Many of the letters have never been published before, or published only in part. They vividly reflect Hogg’s varied social experience and shed new light …
Collected Letters of James Hogg, Volume 2, 1820-1831
Inbunden, 2006
1483 kr
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The letters in the second volume of Gillian Hughes’s pioneering edition vividly reflect Hogg’s varied social experience and shed new light on his own writings and those of his contemporaries. His correspondents included major writers such as Scott and Byron, politicians such as Sir Robert Peel, and …
Collected Letters of James Hogg, Volume 3, 1832-1835
Inbunden, 2008
1483 kr
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The third and final volume of the first collected edition of Hogg's letters reveals his versatility in old age. In 1832 he visits London for the first time and becomes the literary lion of the season. As communications improve in the early 1830s he explores the possibility of writing for American …
Mador of the Moor
Av James Hogg, James E. Barcus
Inbunden, 2005
1607 kr
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With an Essay on Hogg's Literary Friendships by Janette Currie and an Appendix on the Popular Context by Suzanne GilbertScottish popular tradition includes a group of stories about a King who has adventures - amorous and otherwise - as he wanders in disguise among his people. Many of these stories …
Altrive Tales
Featuring a ‘Memoir of the Author’s Life’
Inbunden, 2003
1607 kr
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Altrive Tales was carefully prepared by Hogg in 1832 as the opening volume in a planned twelve-volume collected prose fiction series, intended as the culmination of his career as a storyteller. It opens with his own story of how a ragged servant-lad remade himself as a respected professional …
Mountain Bard
Av James Hogg, Suzanne Gilbert
Inbunden, 2007
1607 kr
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Hogg grew up in rural Ettrick Forest in a notable family of tradition-bearers, and in his first major poetry collection The Mountain Bard of 1807 he claims his rightful position at the centre of that culture. Whereas Scott collected the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Hogg was the sole author of …
Anecdotes of Scott
Häftad, 2004
296 kr
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After Scott’s death in 1832 James Hogg wrote an affectionate but frank account of their long friendship. Scott’s son-in-law and official biographer, John Gibson Lockhart, declared himself to be filled with ‘utter disgust and loathing’ at the ‘beastly and abominable things’ he found it to …
