Download or read book Summarized and Analyzed: Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner written by Student World and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Hogg, the original author of the book "The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner" had got the book published anonymously in1924. It is said that the author did so, for the content, as he thought, was not going to be easily accepted by the contemporary readers.It is not easy to categorize this book in one particular genre, for it includes several significantly obvious elements of different genres of novel writing. The modern scholars consider it to be an early example of modern crime fiction, but there are several other critics and scholars who conclude that the book is a part Gothic and part psychological mystery.