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Book SynopsisAltrive 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.
Trade ReviewThis is a fascinating volume, full of surprises, challenges and confirmations ! Gillian Hughes' editorial activities are exemplary: the textual decisions and apparatus inspire confidence and assent, and the genesis of the Tales is pieced together in an introduction which is a serious piece of scholarly detecitve work in its own right!she offers finely-observed, stimulating exegiesis which will encourage further readings, and the explanatory notes offer some wonderfully suggestive analogies. Alltogether, the volume is a revelation. There is a very strong case for its reissue in a paperback accessible to students. This is a fascinating volume, full of surprises, challenges and confirmations ! Gillian Hughes' editorial activities are exemplary: the textual decisions and apparatus inspire confidence and assent, and the genesis of the Tales is pieced together in an introduction which is a serious piece of scholarly detecitve work in its own right!she offers finely-observed, stimulating exegiesis which will encourage further readings, and the explanatory notes offer some wonderfully suggestive analogies. Alltogether, the volume is a revelation. There is a very strong case for its reissue in a paperback accessible to students.
