The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Hogg, James

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9780192835901: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Oxford World's Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0192835904 ISBN 13: 9780192835901

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999

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Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist parentage by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The stranger assures the boy that no sin can affect the salvation of an elect person. The reader,
while recognizing the stranger as Satan, is prevented by the subtlety of the novel's structure from finally deciding whether, for all his vividness and wit, he is more than a figment of the boy's imagination.
This edition reprints the text of the unexpurgated first edition of 1824, later 'corrected' in an attempt to placate the Calvinists.

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The definitive edition of the all-time Scottish novel - an 'enduring masterpeice' - introduced by Ian Rankin

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