The shepherd's calendar
By: James Hogg ; edited by Douglas S. Mack.
Contributors: Mack, Douglas S.
Series: The Stirling/South Carolina research edition, the collected works of James Hogg ;; 1
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Country life -- Fiction.; Rural poor -- Fiction.; Shepherds -- Fiction.; Pastoral fiction.; Scotland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Never before published as Hogg originally intended, this new edition of The Shepherd's Calendar reaffirms his collection of thirteen rural tales and anecdotes as a major landmark in the history of Scottish literature. Capturing the flavour and style of Border story-telling, they gradually build into a coherent yet intriguing portrait of pastoral life, in which fact blurs with faerie and where narrative authority is increasingly called into question.