"James Hogg. Scotland: His writings, buried for more than a century and a half in scattered periodicals, song-sheets, hand-written manuscripts, and rare first editions are now coming into the public domain at modest prices. Sixteen volumes of the new edition have now been published in hardback, and eight paperbacks have followed.

Unearthing the treasures of this literary Pompei from the rubble of neglect and indifference is hard but exciting and even revolutionary work, since it is changing our views of one of Scotland's major writers rapidly and forever."

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