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Nightmare Abbey, a venerable family-mansion, in a highly picturesque state of semi-dilapidation, pleasantly situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens, at the verge of the county of Lincoln, had the honour to be the seat of Christopher Glowry, Esquire. This gentleman was naturally of an atrabilarious temperament, and much troubled with those phantoms of indigestion which are commonly called blue devils.

An account of the author's early twentieth-century childhood as a member of a large family in China.

This book is intended to serve as an introductory historical survey of medical psychology rather than of psychiatry. -- Foreword.

In this autobiographical work, the author draws on memories of her childhood to describe the psychological costs of the contradictory rules in Southern Society about sin, sex and segregation. She cites the evils of segregation for both white and colored people and gives the history of race relations from pre-Civil War days.

First published in The Norton Library 1962.

Arguing that "the appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce's big joke," Burgess provides a readable, accessible guide to the writings of James Joyce.