Altrive Tales: Featuring a 'Memoir of the Author's Life'

I like to write about myself: in fact, there are few things I like better'So confesses Hogg with pawky self-mocking humour in Altrive Tales.The collection opens with Hogg's own story of how a ragged servant-lad remade himself as a respected professional writer, the associate of Byron, Scott, Southey, Wordsworth and Galt. Hogg's frank and humorous 'Memoir of the Author's Life' is widely recognised as a classic of Romantic autobiography and an important record of early nineteenth-century Scot...