TY - BOOK ID - 77895221 TI - Mark Twain's Which was the dream? : and other symbolic writings of the later years AU - Twain, Mark AU - Tuckey, John Sutton PY - 1966 SN - 1282382969 9786612382963 0520905059 9780520905054 0520012852 9780520012851 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Electronic books. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. KW - Books in machine-readable form KW - Digital books KW - E-books KW - Ebooks KW - Online books KW - Books KW - Electronic publications KW - Twain, Mark, KW - Twain, Mark KW - Tvėn, Mark KW - Tuėĭn, Mark KW - Tuwayn, Mārk KW - Twayn, Mārk KW - Tʻu-wen, Ma-kʻo KW - Tven, M. KW - Touen, Makū KW - Twain, Marek KW - Make Tuwen KW - Tuwen, Make KW - Make Teviin KW - Твен, Марк KW - Touain, Mark KW - טבןַ, מרק, KW - טוויין, מארק, KW - טוויין, מרק, KW - טווין, מארק, KW - טווין, מרק, KW - טווען, מארק, KW - טוין, מרק, KW - טװען, מארק, KW - טװײן, מארק, KW - 馬克吐温, KW - Tuvāyn, Mārk KW - Tvāyn, Mārk KW - تواين، مارک KW - Clemens, Samuel Langhorne KW - Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius KW - Conte, Louis de KW - American literature KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77895221 AB - All of these selections in this volume were comosed between 1896 and 1905. Mark Twain wrote them after the disasters of the early and middle nineties that had included the decline into bankruptcy of his publishing business, the failure of the typsetting machine in which he invested heavily, and the death of his daughter Susy. Their principal fable is that of a man who has been long favored by luck while pursuing a dream of success that has seemed about to turn into reality. Sudden reverses occur and he experiences a nightmarish time of failure. He clutches at what may be a saving thought: perhaps he is indeed living in a nightmare from which he will awaken to his former felicity. But there is also the possibility that what seems a dream of disaster may be the actuality of his life. The question is the one asked by the titles that he gave to two of his manuscripts: "Which Was the Dream?" and "Which Was It?" He posed a similar question in 1893: "I dreamed I was born, and grew up, and was a pilot on the Mississippi, and a miner and journalist...and had a wife and children...and this dream goes on and on and on, and sometimes seems so real that I almost believe it is real. I wonder if it is?" Behind this naïve query was his strong interest in conscious and unconscious levels of mental experience, which were then being explored by the new psychology. ER -