The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner (With A Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts, And Other Evidence, By The Editor)
James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner (With A Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts, And Other Evidence, By The Editor) (1824) is a gothic fiction and historical fiction novel. The story is set in Scotland, in the 19th century. Readers will find themes of murderers, Psychological, criminals and calvinists.
Open Library readers give it an average of 3.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, and 14 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 282 editions. On Project Gutenberg it was downloaded 1,436 times in the last 30 days.
It runs to roughly 261 pages β 4β5 hours of reading at an average pace. It is in the public domain, so you can read it free on Project Gutenberg or listen to the 8 h 38 min LibriVox audiobook.
About The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner (With A Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts, And Other Evidence, By The Editor)
"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.
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βIn August 1823 Blackwood's Magazine, the celebrated literary periodical which was the mouthpiece of an important group of Edinburgh literati, published a letter, under the heading 'A Scots Mummy', which described the digging up of a suicide's grave.β
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner (With A Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts, And Other Evidence, By The Editor) was written by James Hogg and first published in 1824.
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It is usually shelved as Gothic Fiction and Historical Fiction.
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The median edition has 261 pages, about 4β5 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
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