Nightmare Abbey follows the fortunes of Christopher Glowry, Esquire, a morose widower who lives with his only son Scythrop in his semi-dilapidated family mansion Nightmare Abbey, which is situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens in Lincolnshire. Scythrop is recovering from a love affair which ended badly when Mr Glowry and the young woman's father quarreled over terms and broke off the proposed match. With a penchant for melancholy, gothic mystery and abstruse Kantian metaphysics, Scythrop throws himself into a quixotic mission of reforming the world and regenerating the...
Nightmare Abbey follows the fortunes of Christopher Glowry, Esquire, a morose widower who lives with his only son Scythrop in his semi-dilapidated fam...
This is a humorous novel and the author writes about his characters almost as if he does not care for them very much. The first to whom we are introduced are Mr Glowry, his unhappy wife, and their only son Scythrop, named after a relative who had hanged himself. The dilapidated mansion they inhabit is in Lincolnshire.
This is a humorous novel and the author writes about his characters almost as if he does not care for them very much. The first to whom we are introdu...
