Author: James Hogg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Tales and Sketches
Author: James Hogg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Author: James Hogg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brothers
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Published anonymously in 1824, this gothic mystery novel was written by Scottish author James Hogg. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner was published as if it were the presentation of a century-old document. The unnamed editor offers the reader a long introduction before presenting the document written by the sinner himself.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brothers
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Published anonymously in 1824, this gothic mystery novel was written by Scottish author James Hogg. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner was published as if it were the presentation of a century-old document. The unnamed editor offers the reader a long introduction before presenting the document written by the sinner himself.
Electric Shepherd
Author: Karl Miller
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571218172
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A dazzling portrait of the life and times of James Hogg. Electric Shepherd is a likeness of James Hogg, Scottish Borderer and international literary star, who shared an epoch and an environment with Walter Scott. His novel, the Confessions of a Justified Sinner, is one of the great works of European Romanticism. 'Miller's writing seems to breathe the air of the period so steadily and so deeply that the reader might occasionally experience a part of himself venturing forth to mingle with the multitude of personalities on display.' Andrew O'Hagan, Telegraph
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571218172
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A dazzling portrait of the life and times of James Hogg. Electric Shepherd is a likeness of James Hogg, Scottish Borderer and international literary star, who shared an epoch and an environment with Walter Scott. His novel, the Confessions of a Justified Sinner, is one of the great works of European Romanticism. 'Miller's writing seems to breathe the air of the period so steadily and so deeply that the reader might occasionally experience a part of himself venturing forth to mingle with the multitude of personalities on display.' Andrew O'Hagan, Telegraph
Songs
Author: James Hogg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Selected Poems of James Hogg
Author: James Hogg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Songs, by the Ettrick shepherd
Author: James Hogg
Publisher: Edinburgh ; London : T.M. Fovlis
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: Edinburgh ; London : T.M. Fovlis
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Walking with James Hogg
Author: Bruce Gilkison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781474415378
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Celebrates the extraordinary life of a flawed and lovable character, and provides a brief and accessible study of Hogg's works.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781474415378
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Celebrates the extraordinary life of a flawed and lovable character, and provides a brief and accessible study of Hogg's works.
The View from Castle Rock
Author: Alice Munro
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307266028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A “revelatory” (The Boston Globe), “exhilarating” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of twelve stories that “[redraw] the boundaries between fiction and memoir” (O: The Oprah Magazine), from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro “Munro really does know magic: how to summon the spirits and the emotions that animate our lives.”—The Washington Post Book World A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Slate, Rocky Mountain News, New York, The Kanas City Star A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s dream. Scottish immigrants experience love and loss on a journey that leads them to rural Ontario. Wives, mothers, fathers, and children move through uncertainty, ambivalence, and contemplation in these stories of hopes, adversity, and wonder. The View from Castle Rock reveals what is most essential in Munro’s art: her compassionate understanding of ordinary lives.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307266028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A “revelatory” (The Boston Globe), “exhilarating” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of twelve stories that “[redraw] the boundaries between fiction and memoir” (O: The Oprah Magazine), from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro “Munro really does know magic: how to summon the spirits and the emotions that animate our lives.”—The Washington Post Book World A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Slate, Rocky Mountain News, New York, The Kanas City Star A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s dream. Scottish immigrants experience love and loss on a journey that leads them to rural Ontario. Wives, mothers, fathers, and children move through uncertainty, ambivalence, and contemplation in these stories of hopes, adversity, and wonder. The View from Castle Rock reveals what is most essential in Munro’s art: her compassionate understanding of ordinary lives.
The Testament of Gideon Mack
Author: James Robertson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101650486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A critical success on both sides of the Atlantic, this darkly imaginative novel from Scottish author James Robertson takes a tantalizing trip into the spiritual by way of a haunting paranormal mystery. When Reverend Gideon Mack, a good minister despite his atheism, tumbles into a deep ravine called the Black Jaws, he is presumed dead. Three days later, however, he emerges bruised but alive-and insistent that his rescuer was Satan himself. Against the background of an incredulous world, Mack's disturbing odyssey and the tortuous life that led to it create a mesmerizing meditation on faith, mortality, and the power of the unknown.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101650486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A critical success on both sides of the Atlantic, this darkly imaginative novel from Scottish author James Robertson takes a tantalizing trip into the spiritual by way of a haunting paranormal mystery. When Reverend Gideon Mack, a good minister despite his atheism, tumbles into a deep ravine called the Black Jaws, he is presumed dead. Three days later, however, he emerges bruised but alive-and insistent that his rescuer was Satan himself. Against the background of an incredulous world, Mack's disturbing odyssey and the tortuous life that led to it create a mesmerizing meditation on faith, mortality, and the power of the unknown.
Fifty Famous People; A Book of Short Stories
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387050372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387050372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.