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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

By: James Hogg
Narrated by: Peter Kenny, Nick McArdle
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A psychological thriller before its time, James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, published in 1824, takes us back to the world of 18th-century Scotland, into a mind haunted by religious obsession, and driven to commit murder. The events are told from several different viewpoints, so that truth and reality appear to dissolve in this disturbing story of the dark legacy of Calvinist doctrine, and how it led one man to madness.

Misunderstood and neglected for more than a century, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is now regarded as a classic of the supernatural, comparable with Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or Dracula.

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Public Domain (P)2012 Naxos AudioBooks Classics Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scotland Paranormal

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I loved this story, Living in Edinburgh myself I loved being able to visualise the cowgate, running to Dalkeith, and listening to the servants speak in Scots.

A great story

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i was a big fan of the acting and the quality was outstanding. bravo audible.

awesome

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. both the story and how it was narrated.
it is superbly written.

Amazing story! very good narrator.

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Starts out in a fairly mundane way, but the uncanny creeps in with marvellous, spine chilling subtlety.

Brilliant. Wonderfully uncanny.

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This truly is a Masterpiece. Magnificent. Scottish canny stories at their very best. Listen to it with book along side, to get fully immersed

Mind blowing

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.....where the story becomes so thick with Scottish dialect I'm afraid I've had to give up because I can't understand what's being said anymore. Until then I'd persevered with the difficulty level as I found the tale to be fascinating and complex, but it might as well be in Cantonese from Chapter of 33 onwards as far as I am concerned. A bit deflated that I'm not going to get to the end, too late to return for a refund. Shame!

Chapter 33.....

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