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    The Little Dream
    The Little Dream
    The Little Dream
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    The Little Dream

    By John Galsworthy

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    The Little Dream
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    John Galsworthy

    John Galsworthy was a Nobel-Prize (1932) winning English dramatist, novelist, and poet born to an upper-middle class family in Surrey, England. He attended Harrow and trained as a barrister at New College, Oxford. Although called to the bar in 1890, rather than practise law, Galsworthy travelled extensively and began to write. It was as a playwright Galsworthy had his first success. His plays—like his most famous work, the series of novels comprising The Forsyte Saga—dealt primarily with class and the social issues of the day, and he was especially harsh on the class from which he himself came.

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      The Little Dream - John Galsworthy

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Little Dream (Second Series Plays)

      by John Galsworthy

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Little Dream (Second Series Plays)

      Author: John Galsworthy

      Release Date: September 26, 2004 [EBook #2910]

      Last Updated: October 28, 2012

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ASCII

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LITTLE DREAM ***

      Produced by David Widger

      GALSWORTHY'S PLAYS

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      GALSWORTHY PLAYS

      SECOND SERIES—NO. 2

      THE LITTLE DREAM

      An Allegory in six scenes

      By John Galsworthy

      CHARACTERS

           SEELCHEN, a mountain girl

           LAMOND, a climber

           FELSMAN, a glide

           CHARACTERS IN THE DREAM

           THE GREAT HORN |

           THE COW HORN   |          mountains

           THE WINE HORN  |

           THE EDELWEISS           |

           THE ALPENROSE           | flowers

           THE GENTIAN             |

           THE MOUNTAIN DANDELION  |

           VOICES AND FIGURES IN THE DREAM

           COWBELLS

           MOUNTAIN AIR

           FAR VIEW OF ITALY

           DISTANT FLUME OF STEAM

           THINGS IN BOOKS

           MOTH CHILDREN

           THREE DANCING YOUTHS

           THREE DANCING GIRLS

           THE FORMS OF WORKERS

           THE FORMS OF WHAT IS MADE BY WORK

           DEATH BY SLUMBER

           DEATH BY DROWNING

           FLOWER CHILDREN

           GOATHERD

           GOAT BOYS

           GOAT GOD

           THE FORMS OF SLEEP

      SCENE I

      It is just after sunset of an August evening. The scene is a room in a mountain hut, furnished only with a table, benches. and a low broad window seat. Through this window three rocky peaks are seen by the light of a moon which is slowly whitening the last hues of sunset. An oil lamp is burning. SEELCHEN, a mountain girl, eighteen years old, is humming a folk-song, and putting away in a cupboard freshly washed soup-bowls and glasses. She is dressed in a tight-fitting black velvet bodice. square-cut at the neck and partly filled in with a gay handkerchief, coloured rose-pink, blue, and golden, like the alpen-rose, the gentian, and the mountain dandelion; alabaster beads, pale as edelweiss, are round her throat; her stiffened. white linen sleeves

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