The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Annotated)

About this book

This new edition of the enduring Scottish classic contains a new introductory essay and biography of the author as well as a full glossary of unfamiliar Scots language words and archaic expressions.----------------------On the surface, a story of a young man, Robert Wringhim, who encounters a doppelganger and is subsequently forced to commit murders. However, underneath lies a disturbing, unclassifiable text using multiple narratives and voices, which gave the book the status of the earliest postmodern text in the history of literature.Perhaps the ultimate unclassifiable novel, Confessions of a Justified Sinner will take the reader for a fascinating journey into the world of angels, devils, possessions and delusion.