The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner by James Hogg Fiction Literary

<p>"I was born an outcast in the world in which I was destined to act so conspicuous a part. My mother was a burning and a shining light. But she was married to a man all over spotted with the leprosy of sin. She fled from his embraces the first night after their marriage. . . ." James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly especially in his best-known novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner published in 1824; it has been called "the greatest of all Scottish novels."</p>