James Hogg (1770-1835) born in Ettrick, in the Scottish Borders. It also contains two of Hogg's most interesting stories, 'Marion's Jock' and 'John Gray o' Middleholm'. This new edition has an introduction by Karl Miller, which discusses the presence of the novel in the life and times of James Hogg. But who is Gil-Martin? And what does he truly desire? The Gothic double or doppelganger is nowhere more powerfully imagined than in Confessions of a Justified Sinner, once called 'the greatest novel of Scotland'. Sure of his freedom from the dictates of morality, he embarks on a series of crimes in the company of a new friend Gil-Martin, a man of many likenesses who can be mistaken for Robert, and who explains that they are as one in the holy work of purifying the world. He comes to believe that he is one of the elect, predestined to be saved, while others are damned. Robert Wringham's family is composed of a dissolute father and brother, a pious mother, and a rival father in the person of a fanatical Calvinist minister. The Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Karl Miller. James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a Scottish classic, a quintessentially Gothic tale of psychological horror, and a relentless attack on Calvinist dogma.
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