Dreams: A Literary Anthology - Various - Dover Thrift Editions

Dreams: A Literary Anthology by Various brings together a wide-ranging selection of writing on the enduring mystery of dreams. This Dover Thrift Editions paperback gathers extracts from religious texts, classical literature and a broad sweep of later writing.

Key details

• Author: Various
• Series: Dover Thrift Editions
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 224
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• ISBN: 9780486851112

Synopsis

Dreams have long invited interpretation, symbolism and debate, and this anthology traces that fascination across centuries of literature and thought. Selections draw on the Bible, classical Greek writing, novels, memoirs, essays, philosophy, psychology and poetry, considering dreaming with both scepticism and wonder.

Alongside reflections on meaning and narrative possibility, the collection presents dream experiences associated with writers and characters, moving between nightmare and comedy. Featured voices include Louisa May Alcott, the Brontë sisters, G. K. Chesterton, Cicero, René Descartes, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sigmund Freud, Homer, Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Sophocles, Robert Louis Stevenson and others.

Rackhams Reference : WHX73BXM86