"What Dreams May Come..."

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Title"What Dreams May Come..."
Year for Search1941
AuthorsBeresford, J[ohn] D[avys](1873-1947)
Tertiary AuthorsBeresford, J. D.
Date Published[1941]
PublisherHutchinson
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

A man in contemporary, wartime Britain dreams of the future of another world that had had a past like Earth's but is now a communal eutopia. The dreams are presented initially through the dreams of the man as a young boy. The dreams, which he could sometimes access at will even while awake, provided an escape from an unhappy home life, and much of the novel concerns the boy’s life as he matures. He is able to live there for a longer period after being injured in a World War 2 air raid and falling into a coma. Returning to the war, he is arrested for subversion for talking about his experience. In the future there have been significant physical changes in the human race. Telepathy is normal. Sexual differences are less obvious. Only thirty books are considered worth reading. Vegetarian with no cooking.
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Author Note

(1873-1947)
Full Text

[1941] Beresford, J[ohn] D[avys] (1873-1947). “What Dreams May Come... “ . London: Hutchinson. NLS

A man in contemporary, wartime Britain dreams of the future of another world that had had a past like Earth’s but is now a communal eutopia. The dreams are presented initially through the dreams of the man as a young boy. The dreams, which he could sometimes access at will even while awake, provided an escape from an unhappy home life, and much of the novel concerns the boy’s life as he matures. He is able to live there for a longer period after being injured in a World War 2 air raid and falling into a coma. Returning to the war, he is arrested for subversion for talking about his experience. In the future there have been significant physical changes in the human race. Telepathy is normal. Sexual differences are less obvious. Only thirty books are considered worth reading. Vegetarian with no cooking.