Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Zusatztext [The] Oxford Worlds Classics edition provides concise background information enough to allow the reader to understand the references without feeling that s/hes reading a history book and a glossary and notes which explain any unfamiliar terms or allusions. The informative introduction, by Ian Duncan, Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, sets the book in its historical and literary context, and provides some biographical information on the author. Informationen zum Autor Ian Duncan has previously taught at Yale and Oregon universities and has been at UC Berkeley since 2001. He has edited several OWC editions including Doyle's The Lost World, Scott's Ivanhoe and Rob Roy, and the anthology Travel Writing 1700-1830 with Elizabeth Bohls. He is co-editor of the forthcoming (2011) Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg. Klappentext Wringhim believes himself to be one of the elect, predestined for salvation and exempt from moral law, who embarks on a career as a murderer under the influence of a mysterious double. Hogg's terrifying masterpiece is presented in a new edition with an introduction that explores his remarkable career and the novel's originality and sophistication. Zusammenfassung Wringhim believes himself to be one of the elect, predestined for salvation and exempt from moral law, who embarks on a career as a murderer under the influence of a mysterious double. Hogg's terrifying masterpiece is presented in a new edition with an introduction that explores his remarkable career and the novel's originality and sophistication.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Duncan, James Hogg, Hogg James
• Assisted by: Ian Duncan (Editor), Ian (Professor of English Duncan (Editor), Duncan Ian (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.05.2010
• EAN: 9780199217953
• ISBN: 978-0-19-921795-3
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Religious, FICTION / Christian / General, RELIGION / Christianity / Presbyterian, FICTION / Christian / Classic & Allegory, RELIGION / Christianity / Calvinist, Religious and spiritual fiction, Religious & Spiritual Fiction, Relating to Christian people and groups, Classic fiction: general and literary, Calvinist, Reformed & Presbyterian Churches, Calvinist, Reformed and Presbyterian Churches