The dream adventure.

Anthology of stories, selections from novels, and other literature dealing with dreams.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Caillois, Roger, 1913-1978 (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, Orion Press [1963]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The dream of the Duke of Chin / Tso-chʻiu Ming
  • King Mu of Chou ; The country of Ku Mang and others ; Mr. Yin and his servant ; Whose deer was it? / Lieh Tzu
  • Chuang Chou and the butterfly / Chuang Tzu
  • The magic pillow / Shen Chi-chi
  • Governor of the southern branch / Li Kung-tso
  • The three dreams / Po Hsing-chien
  • A strange dream / Shen Ya-chih
  • The second visit to the red cliff / Su Shih
  • The painted wall ; A scholar of Feng-Yang ; Wu Chʻiu-yueh / Pʻu Sung-ling
  • One Pao-yü dreams of visiting another Pao-yü / Tsʻao, Hsueh-chʻin.
  • Tale of Aristomenes / Apuleius
  • The gardens of Alamut / Marco Polo
  • The vision of Charles XI / Prosper Mérimée
  • A tale of the ragged mountains / Edgar Allan Poe
  • The dead leman / Théophile Gautier
  • An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce
  • The dream of doctor Mišić / Ksaver Sandor Gjalski
  • The holes in the mask / Jean Lorrain
  • The brushwood boy / Rudyard Kipling
  • The door in the wall / H.G. Wells
  • Phantas / Oliver Onions
  • Lord Mountdrago / William Somerset Maugham
  • The visit to the museum / Vladimir Nabokov
  • Pale blue nightgown / Louis Golding
  • Wild surmise / Henry Kuttner and Catherine L. Moore
  • The dream that was violated / Luisa Mercedes Levinson
  • Everything and nothing / Jorge Luis Borges
  • The distances / Julio Cortazar
  • The epistemology of the dream / Bernard Groethuysen.