The Shepherd's Calendar

James Hogg is one of the acknowledged masters of the short story. Some of his best stories appeared in The Shepherd's Calendar, a work of the 1820s in which he sets out to re-create on paper the manner and the content of the traditional oral storytelling of Ettrick Forest, the remote and mountainous sheep-farming district in which he grew up. Like Hogg's masterpiece The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, several of the stories from The Shepherd's Calendar deal disturbingly and hauntingly with the supernatural, and explore psychological depths with a remarkable insight and intensity. The Shepherd's Calendar also draws on Hogg's experiences as a young shepherd in the 1790s as it produces a convincing and very human picture of the dangers, the pleasures, and the tensions of the lives of the rural poor in Scotland in the years that followed the French Revolution. This Polygon paperback is based on the acclaimed hardback edition of The Shepherd's Calendar for the Stirling / South Carolina Collected Works of James Hogg (Edinburgh University Press, 1995).

About the author

James Hogg. Edited by Douglas Mack

Summary

A collection of thirteen tales and anecdotes, published for the first time as Hogg intended, and capturing the flavour of Border story-telling.

Product details

• Authors: James Hogg
• Assisted by: Douglas S Mack (Editor), Douglas S. Mack (Editor), Douglas S Mack (Editor), Douglas S. Mack (Editor)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780748604746
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-0474-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Weight: 626 g
• Illustrations: Illustrations
• Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg; The Collected Works of James Hogg; Stirling/South Carolina Resear; Stirling / South Carolina Rese
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies