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.
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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
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