"Dreams" by Olive Schreiner is a collection of short writings that uses dream-like stories to think about big ideas like life, love, and happiness. The book starts with Life and Love on a shore, along with a child named Joy, showing how emotions change over time from innocence to something more complicated. It's like a journey through thoughts and feelings, using beautiful writing to investigate what it means to be human and to look for truth.
Dreams
By Olive Schreiner
Embark on a surreal journey where abstract personifications navigate life, love, and the evolving essence of joy, revealing profound truths about the human condition.
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1998-08-01
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About the AuthorOlive Schreiner was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm (1883), which has been highly acclaimed. It deals boldly with such contemporary issues as agnosticism, existential independence, individualism, the professional aspirations of women, and the elemental nature of life on the colonial frontier.
Olive Schreiner was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm (1883), which has been highly acclaimed. It deals boldly with such contemporary issues as agnosticism, existential independence, individualism, the professional aspirations of women, and the elemental nature of life on the colonial frontier.
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