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Hello, Darlings! by James Hogg
Category: Accessories
Spontaneous, hilarious, irrepresible and, of course, trailblazing - Kenny Everett was revolutionary in television and radio comedy. Chris Evans, Chris Moyles, Rob Brydon and Steve Wright have all cited Kenny as a huge influence on their work - even the great Spike Milligan called him a genius. It was Ke ...Show more
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
In the early years of the 18th century, Scotland is torn by religious and political strife. Hogg's sinner, justified by his Calvinist conviction that his own salvation is pre-ordained, is suspected of involvement in a series of bizarre and hideous crimes. A century later his memoirs reveal the extraordi ...Show more
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Brought up by a strict Calvinist pastor, Robert Wringham believes he is one of the elect, predestined for salvation while all others - including his real father and brother - are cursed. Convinced he is indestructible and above the law, Robert commits terrible crimes under the influence of Gil-Martin - ...Show more
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg (Ian Rankin (INTR))
Category: Classics | Series: Canons
It is Scotland in the early eighteenth century. Fear and superstition grip the land. Robert Wringhim, a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing, is corrupted by a shadowy figure who calls himself Gil-Martin. Under his influence Robert commits a series of murders which he regards as 'justified' by God under t ...Show more
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'He was constantly harassed with the idea, that the next time he lifted his eyes, he would to a certainty see that face, the most repulsive to all his feelings of aught the earth contained'. A nightmarish tale of religious fanaticism and darkness, this chilling classic of the macabre tells the tale of R ...Show more
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Category: Classics
This book contains an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Robert is a difficult and disturbed young man. He comes from a troubled family background and turns to his Calvinist faith for solace but finds it hard to get along with other people, particularly his brother and his dissolute father. After he f ...Show more
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Category: Biography
"Robert is a difficult and disturbed young man. He comes from a troubled family background and turns to his Calvinist faith for solace but finds it hard to get along with other people, particularly his brother and his dissolute father. After he falls in with the mysterious and charming Gil-Martin his ac ...Show more
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by Ian (EDT) James; Duncan Hogg
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
"A real work of imagination, ponderated and achieved." -- Robert Louis Stevenson The son of a radical Calvinist minister conducts a crime spree that horrifies eighteenth-century Scottish society in this gripping tale of murder, madness, and demonic possession. According to Robert Wringhim, his crimes ar ...Show more
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