Confessions Of A Sinner

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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is one of Scotland's most famous literary works, characterized by a macabre sensibility, postmodern narrative structure, and a beguiling blend of religious fanaticism, the gothic, political intrigue, and sex. James Hogg, known for his folk ballads and contributions to the Edinburgh literary scene, published the novel anonymously in 1824, worried that it was too 'replete with horror' to attach his name to it. He dedicated the novel to the Lord Provost of Glasgow and encouraged his friends to spread the word that he was not the novel's author.

Hogg set his novel in Scotland between 1687 and 1712 when tensions between the Highlands (seen as 'gothic,' Gaelic, backward) and the Lowlands (English-speaking, civilized) were inflamed.

At the time of its publication, critics were concerned with, as Ross McKay sums up, 'narrative inconsistency, needless ambiguity, and indecency.' Most contemporary critics were caught up in the theological issues and paid little attention to its artistic achievement. It did not sell well, and failed to alleviate Hogg's chronic poverty. He did not attempt to write a novel again.

In 1837 a posthumous version was issued (clearly not Hogg's work) that was extensively revised by toning down some of the religious controversy, removing inappropriate parts, and reducing some of the narrative confusion by taking out the concluding cameo of James Hogg. This remained the general text of the novel until a reprint of the original text came out in 1895.

Confessions of a Sinner by Augustine of Hippo Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. And during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting a life. Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Wordsworth Classics) James Hogg on Amazon.com.FREE. shipping on qualifying offers. Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Wordsworth Classics).

The novel has been much better received in the 20th century. Nobel Prize-winning novelist Andre Gide praised the work as 'so singular and so enlightening' and claimed that it 'voluptuously tormented' him. His introduction to the 1947 edition helped popularize it in the wider reading public.

Critics today see the novel as influential to the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Edgar Allen Poe, and Robert Louis Stevenson. There have been novels based on the book, 2009 and 2013 theater renditions, a 1985 Polish film adaptation, and various other screenplays.

My name is Patrick. I am a sinner, a simple country person, and the least of all believers.

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Author: Augustine of Hippo

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting a life. Books I-IV are concerned with infancy and learning to talk, schooldays, sexual desire and adolescent rebellion, intense friendships and intellectual exploration. Augustine evolves and analyses his past with all the resources of the reading which shaped his mind: Virgil and Cicero, Neoplatonism and the Bible. This volume, which aims to be usable by students who are new to Augustine, alerts readers to the verbal echoes and allusions of Augustine's brilliant and varied Latin, and explains his theological and philosophical questioning of what God is and what it is to be human. The edition is intended for use by students and scholars of Latin literature, theology and Church history.

Confessions Of A Single Mom