The Dream (Le Rêve)

Cover of a children's edition (1936) of Emile Zola's Le Rêve. Cover of a children's edition (1936) of Emile Zola's Le Rêve.

Emile Zola's novel Le Rêve ('The Dream') concerns an orphaned girl who is adopted by professional embroiderers and who becomes an expert in or nué embroidery. Le Rêve is the sixteenth novel in the so-called Rougon-Macquart series. The book was published in 1888 (Paris, Charpentier). The first English translation came out in 1893.

The story was made into an opera by the composer, Alfred Bruneau, and first presented in 1891. It was also adapted as a film, once in 1921 (a silent film) and the second time in 1931. Both versions were directed by Jacques de Baroncelli.

Digital copy (French version).

Digital source of illustration (retrieved 6 January 2017)

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