Dreams

Dreams--startling, amazing, troubling, or amusing--their intrigue in life and literature remains eternal. This captivating anthology represents the experiences of great authors and characters as well as their nighttime wanderings, awakened through passages from the Bible, classical Greek literature, essays, memoirs, novels, philosophy, poetry, and psychology. It explores dreaming's incredible narrative potential, offering readers an enlightening glimpse into timeless nocturnal musings. <p/> 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.