num_pages: 320
description: James Hogg is one of the acknowledged masters of the short story. Some of his best stories appeared in The Shepherd's Calendar, a work of the 1820s in which he sets out to re-create on paper the manner and the content of the traditional oral storytelling of Ettrick Forest, the upland sheep-farming district in which he grew up. Like Hogg's masterpiece The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, several of the stories from The Shepherd's Calendar deal disturbingly with the supernatural, and explore psychological depths with a remarkable insight and intensity.The Shepherd's Calendar also draws on Hogg's experiences as a young shepherd in the 1790s, giving a convincing and very human picture of the dangers, pleasures, and tensions of the lives of the rural poor in Scotland in the years that followed the French Revolution.This paperback is based on the hardback edition of The Shepherd's Calendar for the Stirling / South Carolina Col
language: English
title: The Shepherd's Calendar
titlecomplete: The Shepherd's Calendar (The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg)
genres: Short Stories
ratings_count: 10
places: The Borders, Scotland
publisher: Edinburgh University Press