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The Dream: A New Translation
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 21 2024
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the shadow of the cathedral, a girl dreams of miracles.
On a winter night, a nine-year-old orphan collapses at the cathedral door-abandoned, freezing, filled with rage at a world that has shown her only cruelty. Hubert and Hubertine, childless embroiderers who live in a medieval house built into the cathedral wall, take her in and name her Angélique.
Raised among saints' lives and illuminated manuscripts, educated through embroidery and prayer, Angélique transforms from angry child into mystic dreamer. The cathedral becomes her world-its stained glass her instruction, its legends her reality, its promise of transcendence her only desire. She learns to embroider vestments with miraculous skill, each stitch a prayer, each golden thread a path toward the divine.
When she sees Félicien d'Hautecoeur, the bishop's son, Angélique recognizes him immediately: the prince from her dreams, the impossible love that can be achieved only through miracle. Their passion defies his family's aristocratic pride and her obscure origins. As obstacles multiply and separation seems inevitable, Angélique turns to the only power she trusts-faith that moves mountains, prayer that works wonders, the certainty that purity and devotion can overcome any earthly barrier.
But some dreams exact a terrible price. Some visions burn too bright for mortal flesh to sustain.
Émile Zola's most surprising novel is a radical departure from his brutal social realism-a delicate tale of mystical love, religious devotion, and the boundary between earthly desire and spiritual transcendence. Set in a medieval world of stained glass and embroidered silk, The Dream reveals the naturalist master in entirely unexpected mode: lyrical, romantic, suffused with beauty and faith.
Yet beneath the surface shimmer darker questions: Can absolute purity exist in an impure world? Can spiritual aspiration and physical love coexist? And what happens when a soul reaches for heaven while still bound to earth?
Some dreams lift us toward the divine. Some dreams consume us entirely.
From the author of Germinal-a luminous vision unlike anything else in his vast oeuvre.
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