The Dream is a 1924 novel by H. G. Wells about a man from a Utopian future who dreams the entire life of an Englishman from the Victorian and Edwardian eras, Harry Mortimer Smith. As in other novels of this period, in The Dream Wells represents the present as an «Age of Confusion» from which humanity will be able to emerge with the help of science and common sense.
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H. G. Wells. The Dream
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I. — THE EXCURSION. 1
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II. — THE BEGINNING OF THE DREAM. 1
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III. — MISFORTUNES COME UPON THE SMITH Family. 1
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IV. — WIDOW SMITH MOVES TO LONDON. 1
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V. — FANNY DISCOVERS HERSELF. 1
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VI. — MARRIAGE IN WAR TIME. 1
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VII. — LOVE AND DEATH. 1
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VIII. — THE EPILOGUE. 1
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The Dream
H. G. Wells
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“It was over! There was a stir throughout the church. We roused ourselves, we stood up. Then we knelt for a brief moment of apparent prayer and then we scrabbled for hats, coats, and umbrellas, and so out into the open air, a great pattering of feet upon the pavement, dispersing this way and that, stiff greetings of acquaintances, Prue to the baker’s for the Sunday dinner and the rest of us straight home.
“Usually there were delightful brown potatoes under the Sunday joint and perhaps there would be a fruit pie also. But in the spring came rhubarb, which I hated. It was held to be peculiarly good for me, and I was always compelled to eat exceptionally large helpings of rhubarb tart.
