Three Perils Of Man

Author : James Hogg
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 9781474469258

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This is one of Hogg's longest and also one of his most original and daring works. Gillian Hughes's uncovering of the original manuscript in the Fales Library of New York University in August 2001 allows the editors to produce here a text that reflects Hogg's original intentions. Alongside the two main plots (the supernatural located at Aikwood Castle and the chivalric located at Roxburgh Castle) a series of embedded narratives provides the reader with, amongst other things, pictures of the traditional and timeless world of rural life in which Hogg had grown up and of early Scottish history. The name Sir Walter Scott (used through most of the manuscript) is restored and passages excised from the manuscript or omitted when the printed edition was prepared are included in the editorial apparatus. In several cases Hogg's more daringly explicit language has been brought back where the printed edition has bowdlerised or subdued the expression. The restoration of the name in particular makes explicit how much this novel represents a challenge to Scott's dominance in the portrayal of chivalry and the Middle Ages in general. Any attempt to assess Hogg as a major novelist, and in particular as a major historical novelist, must consider this edition of The Three Perils of Man.

Author : James Hogg
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465611529

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The Three Perils of Man: War, Women, and Witchcraft (Complete) by James Hogg Pdf

The days of the Stuarts, kings of Scotland, were the days of chivalry and romance. The long and bloody contest that the nation maintained against the whole power of England, for the recovery of its independence,—of those rights which had been most unwarrantably wrested from our fathers by the greatest and most treacherous sovereign of that age, with the successful and glorious issue of the war, laid the foundation for this spirit of heroism, which appears to have been at its zenith about the time that the Stuarts first acquired the sovereignty of the realm. The deeds of the Douglasses, the Randolphs, and other border barons of that day, are not to be equalled by any recorded in our annals; while the reprisals that they made upon the English, in retaliation for former injuries, enriched both them and their followers, and rendered their appearance splendid and imposing to a degree that would scarcely now gain credit. It was no uncommon thing for a Scottish earl then to visit the Court at the head of a thousand horsemen, all splendidly mounted in their military accoutrements; and many of these gentlemen of rank and family. In court and camp, feats of arms were the topic of conversation, and the only die that stamped the character of a man of renown, either with the fair, the monarch, or the chiefs of the land. No gentleman of noble blood would pay his addresses to his mistress, until he had broken a spear with the knights of the rival nation, surprised a strong-hold, or driven a prey from the kinsmen of the Piercies, the Musgraves, or the Howards. As in all other things that run to a fashionable extremity, the fair sex took the lead in encouraging these deeds of chivalry, till it came to have the appearance of a national mania. There were tournaments at the castle of every feudal baron and knight. The ploughmen and drivers were often discovered, on returning from the fields, hotly engaged in a tilting bout with their goads and plough-staves; and even the little boys and maidens on the village green, each well mounted on a crooked stick, were daily engaged in the combat, and riding rank and file against each other, breaking their tiny weapons in the furious onset, while the mimic fire flashed from their eyes. Then was the play of Scots and English begun, a favourite one on the school green to this day. Such was the spirit of the age, not only in Scotland, but over all the countries of southern Europe, when the romantic incidents occurred on which the following tale is founded. It was taken down from the manuscript of an old Curate, who had spent the latter part of his life in the village of Mireton, and was given to the present Editor by one of those tenants who now till the valley where stood the richest city of this realm.

Author : James Hogg
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781773561417

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The Three Perils of Man by James Hogg Pdf

Author : James Hogg
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752332506

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The Three Perils of Man by James Hogg Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Three Perils of Man by James Hogg

Author : James Hogg
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511930160

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The Three Perils of Man - Volume III by James Hogg Pdf

"The Three Perils of Man - Volume III" from James Hogg. Scottish poet and novelist (1770-1835).

Author : James Hogg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Scotland
ISBN : MINN:31951002363607N

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The Three Perils of Man, Or, War, Women and Witchcraft by James Hogg Pdf

Author : James Hogg
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752386691

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Reproduction of the original: The Three Perils of Man by James Hogg

Author : James Hogg
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752386561

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Author : James Hogg
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847674647

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The Three Perils Of Man by James Hogg Pdf

Edited and introduced by Douglas Gifford. The Three Perils of Man is regarded as Hogg’s most ambitious work of fiction. The book’s extraordinary combination of the fantastic, the funny, the serious and the historically realistic must be unique in literature. The adventures of its characters, told with the author’s characteristically bold simplicity, are many, mad, and breathtakingly fast. Ranging from Galloway to Northumberland, the main focus of the book is to be found in the Scottish Borders. Hogg knew and loved the Borders well, and the book is full of their oral tradition and local lore. In his attempt to synthesise this material with history, romance and the high literary ideals of his time, Hogg’s nearest modern parallels would be a combination of Tolkien and Iain Banks. Hogg’s fusion of traditional folklore and innovative style was viewed as an anachronism by his contemporaries, and it is only now that his work is recognised s one of the most original and masterly in the Scottish canon.

Author : James Hogg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002363608L

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The Three Perils of Man, Or, War, Women and Witchcraft by James Hogg Pdf

Author : James Hogg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1053519785

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The Three Perils of Man by James Hogg Pdf

Author : James Hogg
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511929936

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The Three Perils of Man - Volume I by James Hogg Pdf

"The Three Perils of Man - Volume I" from James Hogg. Scottish poet and novelist (1770-1835).

Author : James Hogg
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 151193008X

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The Three Perils of Man - Volume II by James Hogg Pdf

"The Three Perils of Man - Volume II" from James Hogg. Scottish poet and novelist (1770-1835).

Author : James Hogg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : OCLC:1385486435

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Three Perils of Man by James Hogg Pdf

Author : James Hogg
Publisher : Musaicum Books
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788075836014

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THE THREE PERILS OF MAN (Historical Novel ) by James Hogg Pdf

Incredible tale of fantasy, witchcraft, humor and magic. Being a combination of supernatural folk tale, historical novel and also a satire this book displays a fundamental tensity between romance and anti-romance apparent in a number of Hogg's works. The story concerns two women and the contests they set down to the men who flatter them. James Hogg (1770-1835) was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand, and was largely self-educated through reading. He was a friend of many of the great writers of his day, including Sir Walter Scott, of whom he later wrote an unauthorized biography.