The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner
Subtitle: written by himself, with a detail of curious traditionary facts and other evidence by the editor
By: James Hogg ; edited by P.D. Garside ; with an afterword by Ian Campbell.
Contributors: Garside, Peter.
Series: The Stirling/South Carolina research edition of the collected works of James Hogg ;; 9
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Murderers -- Fiction.; Scotland -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "This now-famous book was given a hostile reception when it first appeared in 1824. It was not reprinted until the late 1830s, when a heavily bowdlerised version was included in a posthumous edition of Hogg's collected Tales and Sketches published by Blackie & Son of Glasgow. Thereafter Confessions of a Justified Sinner attracted little interest until the 1890s, when the unbowdlerised text was printed for the first time since the 1820s. However, the current high reputation of Hogg's novel did not fully begin to establish itself until 1947, when a warmly enthusiastic Introduction by Andre Gide appeared in a new edition of the unbowdlerised text."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.