Dreams: A Literary Anthology

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 Κaλὸν?
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