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The first comprehensive scholarly edition of what is widely recognised as Hogg's masterpiece.

Both comical and horrific, 'The Three Perils of Woman' is essentially a combination of two stories on similar themes. One is set in the Highlands following the Battle of Culloden and the other in Hogg's Edinburgh. Daring in its subject matter, the novel touches on such delicate topics as prostitution and venereal disease.

James Hogg's Jacobite Relics - originally commissioned by the Highland Society of London in 1817 - is an important addition to The Collected Works of James Hogg.

One of Hogg's longest and also one of his most original and daring works, presented here in a scholarly edition in light of the discovery of the original manuscript.

James Hogg knew Sir Walter Scott well, and after Scott's death in 1832 he wrote an affectionate but frank account of their long friendship.

Hogg left a written record of three of his many journeys to the Highlands, those of 1802, 1803 and 1804, and in Highland Journeys he offers a thoughtful and deeply-felt response to the Highland Clearances.

In this collection of short stories Hogg focuses on the Scottish civil war of 1644-45, in which the Marquis of Montrose led his royalist forces in a series of stunning victories against the odds before his final defeat at Philiphaugh.

Some of James Hogg's best stories appeared in The Shepherd's Calendar, a work of the 1820s in which he sets out to re-create on paper the manner and the content of the traditional oral storytelling of Ettrick Forest.

At first glance this is a witty and comical collection of poems. But the eccentric nature of many of the poems nevertheless belies the often serious historical and moral issues contained within.

Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg's most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime.

Two of James Hogg's pastoral dramas with songs, presented here with full explanatory notes and glossary.

This new edition prints together, for the first time, the surviving pre-1807 versions of poems included in The Mountain Bard, the full 1807 collection, and the complete 1821 version.

The first edition of The Spy since its original publication in 1810-11 includes early versions of some of Hogg's best-known poetry and prose besides a wealth of fascinating and lesser-known material.

Heroic, radical and at times hilarious, Queen Hynde is Ossian with jokes; but Hogg's epic has serious purposes in mind.

Like other well-known writers of the time, Hogg was a contributor to the annuals, and this book brings together all the Hogg texts that were either written for, or first published in, annuals and gift-books.

Based on Hogg's 1831 collection entitled Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd, this critical edition provides the original text as well as the history of its genesis.

Contributions to Musical Collections and Miscellaneous Songs provides access to the relevant material in the various musical collections to which Hogg refers in his 1831 head notes, thus allowing the new readers of the 21st century to see in facsimile what Hogg himself saw.

This book presents both the first and fifth edition of the poem.

Altrive Tales was carefully prepared by Hogg in 1832 as the opening volume in a planned twelve-volume collected prose fiction series, intended as the culmination of his career as a storyteller.

Lay Sermons offers, playfully, a series of lay sermons on good principles and good breeding - the last thing that one would expect from the pen of Blackwood's Ettrick Shepherd

This collection is comprised of ten of Hogg's poems which, in very different ways, explore the visionary and supernatural, and the writer's portrayal of them - echoing the subject and title of Shakespeare's famous play.

Sets Hoggs' contributions for this 19th century periodical in full cultural context, with detailed annotation and a convenient and complete editorial apparatus.

Originally published in 1810, The Forest Minstrel represents the first full collection of songs by Hogg.

The third and final volume of the first collected edition of Hogg's letters reveals his versatility in old age. It contains an index to all three volumes of Hogg's letters.

The letters in the second volume of Gillian Hughes's pioneering edition vividly reflect Hogg's varied social experience and shed new light on his own writings and those of his contemporaries.

The first ever edition of Hogg's letters to be published, featuring Hogg's correspondence with figures such as Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron and Sir Robert Peel.

The Queen's Wake is one of the landmarks of British Romantic poetry.

This new edition, thoughtfully introduced, extensively annotated and featuring a reading list and Hogg chronology, presents Altrive Tales as a major achievement by one of Scotland's finest storytellers.