"The Dream"
| Title | "The Dream" |
| Year for Search | 1989 |
| Authors | Barnes, Julian [Patrick](b. 1946) |
| Secondary Title | A History of the World in 10½ Chapters |
| Pagination | 281-309 |
| Date Published | 1989 |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | In the story a man wakes up in a new version of Heaven where everyone gets the Heaven they want. The Old Heaven was found to be out of date, and Hell had never existed but been invented as a useful rhetorical device. Now Hell exists only for those who want it to exist and is an obvious fake. Bored after a few centuries of getting just what he wants, the man decides to want to dream that he wakes up alive again and does. |
| Additional Publishers | U.S. ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989), 279-307. Rpt. (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 298-307. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (b. 1946) |
| Full Text | 1989 Barnes, Julian [Patrick] (b. 1946). “The Dream.” In his A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (London: Jonathan Cape, 1989), 281-309. U.S. ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989), 279-307. Rpt. (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 298-307. PSt In the story a man wakes up in a new version of Heaven where everyone gets the Heaven they want. The Old Heaven was found to be out of date, and Hell had never existed but been invented as a useful rhetorical device. Now Hell exists only for those who want it to exist and is an obvious fake. Bored after a few centuries of getting just what he wants, the man decides to want to dream that he wakes up alive again and does. |
