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Altrive Tales - Collected Among the Peasantry of Scotland and from Foreign Adventurers (Hardcover, New)
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Altrive Tales - Collected Among the Peasantry of Scotland and from Foreign Adventurers (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg
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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. It
opens with his own story of how a ragged servant-lad remade himself
as a respected professional writer, the associate of Byron, Scott,
Southey, Wordsworth and Galt. Hogg's frank and humorous 'Memoir of
the Author's Life' is widely recognised as a classic of Romantic
autobiography and an important record of early nineteenth-century
Scottish culture. Hogg's sharp eye for the latest publishing
phenomena and pawky self-mocking humour is evident in his awareness
of Altrive Tales as a contribution to the monthly-volume classic
fiction series of the early 1830s following Sir Walter Scott's
magnum opus edition of the Waverley Novels. Frankly pleading guilty
to the egotism of presenting his own output to the world as a
literary classic Hogg engagingly confesses, 'I like to write about
myself: in fact, there are few things which I like better [...]'.
The themes of the 'Memoir' continue in the tales that follow.' The
Adventures of Captain John Lochy' is a fast-paced historical
fiction, the autobiography of a social outcast adrift in Scotland,
Russia, the Netherlands, and Sweden. 'The Pongos' (an early version
of the Tarzan story) takes a look at Scottish involvement in the
British empire in a comic parody of Enlightenment notions about the
nature of man and of society. 'Marion's Jock' is a virtuoso
exercise in Scots and in Hogg's ability to communicate the peasant
lifestyle of his native Scottish Borders. This new edition,
thoughtfully introduced and extensively annotated, presents Altrive
Tales as a major achievement by one of Scotland's finest
storytellers.
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