The Seventh Dream

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1888
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The dreams are those of a man who is hypnotized and sent into a dream world. Most are at best unpleasant but one describes a city of the future where reason rules, all are equal, never get ill, have no need for money, and only speak the truth. There is no crime, vice, cruelty, or dishonesty. No formal religion. 

Published Date

1888

Publisher
F.V. White & Co
Place Published
London
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1888 [Gollan, Elizabeth Margaret Jane. Later Mrs. Karl Otto Edmund Booth (or von Booth) and Mrs. William Desmond Humphreys] (1850-1938). The Seventh Dream. By “Rita” [pseud.]. London: F.V. White & Co. Rpt. bound with two other novels as The Seventh Dream (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1905), 1-84. L

The dreams are those of a man who is hypnotized and sent into a dream world. Most are at best unpleasant but one describes a city of the future where reason rules, all are equal, never get ill, have no need for money, and only speak the truth. There is no crime, vice, cruelty, or dishonesty. No formal religion. The female author was born in Scotland, raised in Australia, and spent most of her life in the U.K.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. bound with two other novels as The Seventh Dream (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1905), 1-84.

Pseudonym

"Rita" [pseud.]

Author Note

The female author (1850-1938) was born in Scotland, raised in Australia, and spent most of her life in England and Ireland.

 

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