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While he was yet a student, there came to him a dream-adventure which he has no anxiety to repeat; he began, that is to say, to dream in sequence and thus to lead a double life…

—read Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Chapter on Dreams”, free online via @gutenberg_org

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30990/30990-h/30990-h.htm#page177

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

While he was yet a student, there came to him a dream-adventure which he has no anxiety to repeat; he began, that is to say, to dream in sequence and thus to lead a double life…

—read Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Chapter on Dreams”, free online via @gutenberg_org

4/4

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30990/30990-h/30990-h.htm#page177

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

While he was yet a student, there came to him a dream-adventure which he has no anxiety to repeat; he began, that is to say, to dream in sequence and thus to lead a double life…

—read Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Chapter on Dreams”, free online via @gutenberg_org

4/4

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30990/30990-h/30990-h.htm#page177

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

While he was yet a student, there came to him a dream-adventure which he has no anxiety to repeat; he began, that is to say, to dream in sequence and thus to lead a double life…

—read Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Chapter on Dreams”, free online via @gutenberg_org

4/4

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30990/30990-h/30990-h.htm#page177

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

While he was yet a student, there came to him a dream-adventure which he has no anxiety to repeat; he began, that is to say, to dream in sequence and thus to lead a double life…

—read Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Chapter on Dreams”, free online via @gutenberg_org

4/4

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30990/30990-h/30990-h.htm#page177

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“That Robert Louis Stevenson, as a child, suffered from bad health & horrible nightmares is amply supported & documented by the source materials of his biographers, &, above all, by himself”

—Jean-Pierre Naugrette, “Robert Louis Stevenson & the Pleasure of Nightmares”, in STEVENSON & PLEASURE (2026)

3/4

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/stevenson-and-pleasure/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“That Robert Louis Stevenson, as a child, suffered from bad health & horrible nightmares is amply supported & documented by the source materials of his biographers, &, above all, by himself”

—Jean-Pierre Naugrette, “Robert Louis Stevenson & the Pleasure of Nightmares”, in STEVENSON & PLEASURE (2026)

3/4

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/stevenson-and-pleasure/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“That Robert Louis Stevenson, as a child, suffered from bad health & horrible nightmares is amply supported & documented by the source materials of his biographers, &, above all, by himself”

—Jean-Pierre Naugrette, “Robert Louis Stevenson & the Pleasure of Nightmares”, in STEVENSON & PLEASURE (2026)

3/4

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/stevenson-and-pleasure/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“That Robert Louis Stevenson, as a child, suffered from bad health & horrible nightmares is amply supported & documented by the source materials of his biographers, &, above all, by himself”

—Jean-Pierre Naugrette, “Robert Louis Stevenson & the Pleasure of Nightmares”, in STEVENSON & PLEASURE (2026)

3/4

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/stevenson-and-pleasure/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“That Robert Louis Stevenson, as a child, suffered from bad health & horrible nightmares is amply supported & documented by the source materials of his biographers, &, above all, by himself”

—Jean-Pierre Naugrette, “Robert Louis Stevenson & the Pleasure of Nightmares”, in STEVENSON & PLEASURE (2026)

3/4

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/stevenson-and-pleasure/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“Stevenson relates examples of vivid dreams at length, as illustrations of this detailed, indigenous creation of narrative material, but also as a pathology which leads to the reification of such dream residuum in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde…”

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/that-crafty-artifice-stevensons-brownies-and-the-writing-process/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“Stevenson relates examples of vivid dreams at length, as illustrations of this detailed, indigenous creation of narrative material, but also as a pathology which leads to the reification of such dream residuum in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde…”

2/4

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/that-crafty-artifice-stevensons-brownies-and-the-writing-process/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“Stevenson relates examples of vivid dreams at length, as illustrations of this detailed, indigenous creation of narrative material, but also as a pathology which leads to the reification of such dream residuum in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde…”

2/4

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/that-crafty-artifice-stevensons-brownies-and-the-writing-process/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“Stevenson relates examples of vivid dreams at length, as illustrations of this detailed, indigenous creation of narrative material, but also as a pathology which leads to the reification of such dream residuum in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde…”

2/4

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/that-crafty-artifice-stevensons-brownies-and-the-writing-process/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

“Stevenson relates examples of vivid dreams at length, as illustrations of this detailed, indigenous creation of narrative material, but also as a pathology which leads to the reification of such dream residuum in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde…”

2/4

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/that-crafty-artifice-stevensons-brownies-and-the-writing-process/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #writing #JekyllandHyde #gothic #horror #nightmare #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod”
from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885)

Today, 25 September, is World Dream Day

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#Scottish #literature #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #poem #poetry #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod”
from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885)

Today, 25 September, is World Dream Day

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#Scottish #literature #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #poem #poetry #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod”
from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885)

Today, 25 September, is World Dream Day

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#Scottish #literature #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #poem #poetry #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod”
from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885)

Today, 25 September, is World Dream Day

1/4

#Scottish #literature #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #poem #poetry #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod”
from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885)

Today, 25 September, is World Dream Day

1/4

#Scottish #literature #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #poem #poetry #Victorian #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay