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A Dream of Armageddon Herbert George Wells
Contributor(s): Benitez, Paula (Editor), Wells, Herbert George (Author)
ISBN: 1544967985     ISBN-13: 9781544967981
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE:   $14.49  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: March 2017
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- Literary Collections
Physical Information: 0.07" H x 6" W x 9" (0.12 lbs) 28 pages
 
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The story opens aboard a train, when an unwell-looking man strikes up a conversation with the narrator when he sees him reading a book about dreams. The white-faced man says that he has little time for dream analysis because, he says, his dreams are killing him. He goes on to tell how he has been experiencing consecutive dreams of an unspecified future time in which he is a major political figure who has given up his position to live with a younger woman on the island of Capri. The dreamer describes the island in detail, despite never having visited it, which impresses the narrator, who has actually been to Capri. The dreamer tells how his dream idyll comes to an end. While dancing, he is approached by an envoy from his own country who implores him to return and resume his old role before his successor brings about a war. However, this would mean leaving the woman he loves, and his dream self chooses love over duty.