LEADER 03825nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910823165703321 005 20230414221244.0 010 $a1-282-38296-9 010 $a9786612382963 010 $a0-520-90505-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520905054 035 $a(CKB)1000000000766839 035 $a(EBL)470892 035 $a(OCoLC)609850007 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000362894 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11260594 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000362894 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10381567 035 $a(PQKB)10417132 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC470892 035 $a(OCoLC)568421634 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30433 035 $a(DE-B1597)519554 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520905054 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL470892 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10676282 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL238296 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000766839 100 $a20731212d1966 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMark Twain's Which was the dream? $eand other symbolic writings of the later years /$fedited with an introduction by John S. Tuckey 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d1966. 215 $a1 online resource (601 pages) $cportraits 225 1 $aThe Mark Twain papers 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-01285-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tAcknowledgments --$tContents --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$tWhich Was the Dream? --$tThe Enchanted Sea-Wilderness --$tAn Adventure in Remote Seas --$tThe Great Dark --$tIndiantown --$tWhich Was It? --$tThree Thousand Years Among the Microbes --$tThe Passenger's Story --$tThe Mad Passenger --$tDying Deposition --$tTrial of the Squire 330 $aAll of these selections in this volume were comosed between 1896 and 1905. Mark Twain wrote them after the disasters of the early and middle nineties that had included the decline into bankruptcy of his publishing business, the failure of the typsetting machine in which he invested heavily, and the death of his daughter Susy. Their principal fable is that of a man who has been long favored by luck while pursuing a dream of success that has seemed about to turn into reality. Sudden reverses occur and he experiences a nightmarish time of failure. He clutches at what may be a saving thought: perhaps he is indeed living in a nightmare from which he will awaken to his former felicity. But there is also the possibility that what seems a dream of disaster may be the actuality of his life. The question is the one asked by the titles that he gave to two of his manuscripts: "Which Was the Dream?" and "Which Was It?" He posed a similar question in 1893: "I dreamed I was born, and grew up, and was a pilot on the Mississippi, and a miner and journalist...and had a wife and children...and this dream goes on and on and on, and sometimes seems so real that I almost believe it is real. I wonder if it is?" Behind this naïve query was his strong interest in conscious and unconscious levels of mental experience, which were then being explored by the new psychology. 410 0$aMark Twain Papers 517 3 $aWhich was the dream? 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aElectronic books 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 4$aElectronic books. 676 $a817.4 700 $aTwain$b Mark$f1835-1910.$027404 701 $aTuckey$b John Sutton$f1921-$01115615 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823165703321 996 $aMark Twain's Which was the dream$94035528 997 $aUNINA