Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg's
most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Exhibiting
the most complex genesis of any of Hogg's works, it is the
outstanding example of a 'national' genre pioneered by him -- the
miscellaneous collection of popular and traditional narratives.
Hogg's experimental medley of novellas, tales, poems and sketches
posed a lively alternative to the dominant form of the historical
novel established by Walter Scott. The collection includes terse
masterpieces of mystery and the uncanny, virtuoso improvisations on
folktale themes, and -- the highlights of the edition -- two
brilliant autobiographical novellas, The Renowned Adventures of
Basil Lee and Love Adventures of Mr George Cochrane. Reprinted in
incomplete and unreliable texts in Victorian editions of Hogg's
works, Winter Evening Tales fell into almost total obscurity after
the author's death. The Stirling/ South Carolina Edition of the
Collected Works of James Hogg is delighted to republish this key
work in Hogg's career in its entirety for the first time since the
early nineteenth century.
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