Dreams: A Literary Anthology: William Blake, Charlotte Bronte, Sigmund Freud, Homer, Helen Keller and Others

by Bob Blaisdell (Editor)

Overview

The mysterious power of dreams has always fascinated humanity. Theories of interpretation, meaning, and symbolism have varied, yet their intrigue remains eternal. This captivating anthology of dreams represents the experiences of great authors and characters as well as their nighttime wanderings, awakened through passages from the Bible, classical Greek literature, novels, memoirs, essays, philosophy, psychology, and poetry. It explores perspectives both critical and in awe of dreaming’s incredible narrative potential, offering readers an enlightening glimpse into timeless nocturnal musings that can reveal a writer’s most intimate self through nightmare and comedy alike! This original collection contains selections from 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 other dreamers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486851112
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	11/15/2023
Series:	Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	921,472
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction

I. Novels and Short Stories
Anonymous: The Arabian Nights
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights 
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
Anton Chekhov, “Sleepy”
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist 
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Nikolai Gogol, “The Portrait”
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Franz Kafka, “A Country Doctor” 
Guy de Maupassant, “The Horla”
Alexander Pushkin, “The Coffin-Maker” 
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin 
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 

II. Mythology, History, and Religion
The Bible: Joseph, the Dream-Interpreter (The Book of Genesis) 
The Bible: Daniel as Interpreter of King Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream (The Book of Daniel) 
The Bible: Dreams in the Life of Jesus (The Book of Matthew) 
Euripides, Hecuba 
Herodotus, Histories 
Homer, The Iliad 
Homer, The Odyssey
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Sophocles, Oedipus the King

III. Philosophy and Psychology
Anonymous, The Questions of King Milinda 
Mary Arnold-Forster, Studies in Dreams 
Thomas Browne, Religio Medici 
Cicero, On Divination
René Descartes, The Meditations
Sigmund Freud, On Dreams
Socrates, Phaedo
Voltaire, “Of Dreams”
Zhuangzi (also known as Chuang Tzu), Zhuangzi

IV. Poetry and Drama
Louisa May Alcott, “Mary’s Dream” 
Matthew Arnold, “Longing” 
William Blake, “A Dream” and “The Land of Dreams”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment” 
Emily Dickinson, “In Winter in my Room” and “I Years had been from Home” 
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), “At Baia”
Amy Lowell, “I had made a kite”
Edgar Allan Poe, “Dream-Land” and “A Dream Within a Dream” 
Ezra Pound, “To Καλὸν” 
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Arthur Symons, “Dreams” 

V. Memoirs and Essays
Ambrose Bierce, “Visions of the Night”
G. K. Chesterton, “Dreams” 
Dante, The New Life (La Vita Nuova)
Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an Opium-Eater
Charles Dickens, “Night Walks” 
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Demonology”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Peter Eckermann, Conversations with Goethe
Maxim Gorky, Reminiscences of Tolstoy 
William Hazlitt, “On Dreams” 
William Dean Howells, “I Talk of Dreams” 
Jerome K. Jerome, “Dreams”
Samuel Johnson, Life of Johnson by James Boswell
Helen Keller, The World I Live In 
Charles Lamb, “Witches, and Other Night-Fears” 
Michel de Montaigne, Essays 
John Ruskin, “On Carpaccio’s Dream of Saint Ursula” 
Robert Louis Stevenson, “A Chapter on Dreams”

Selected Bibliography