Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents

✍ Scribed by Beckford, William

• Book ID: 109640381
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 151 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781162660523

✦ Synopsis

August 4th.--The heats were so excessive in the night, that I thought myself several times on the point of suffocation, tossed about like a wounded fish, and dreamt of the devil and Senegal. Towards sunrise, a faint breeze restored me to life and reason. I slumbered till late in the day, and the moment I was fairly awake, ordered my gondolier to row out to the main ocean, that I might plunge into its waves, and hear and see nothing but waters around me.

About the Author

Robert J. Gemmett is an English Professor in State University New York, Brockport. An acclaimed expert on William Beckford and his works, his numerous publications include The Consummate Collector: William Beckford's Letters to His Bookseller and Beckford's Fonthill: The Rise of a Romantic Icon.