Winter Evening Tales (Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg)
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: December 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 648
ISBN-13: 9780748620869
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Other prose: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature: Classics; Europe; General; European - General
First sentence: I HAVE for these twenty years been convinced of the truth of the proverb, that a fool can best teach a wise man wit; and that it is, in fact, on the egregious misconduct of the thoughtless and foolish part of mankind that the wise and prudent calculate for