What Dreams May Come
1888
What Dreams May Come is a novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, first published in 1888. Set in the historical city of Constantinople, it follows Harold Dartmouth, a young Englishman seeking excitement and meaning in life, and his interactions with the enigmatic Weir Penrhyn. The narrative explores themes of destiny, ambition, and the complexities of man-woman relationships against a backdrop of societal expectations and personal fulfillment.
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“Any man who yields habitually to melancholia may expect his brain, sooner or later, to degenerate from its original strength, and relax the toughness and compactness of its fibre. Absolute dementia may not be the result for some years, but there will be occasional and painful indications of the end for a long space before it arrives. The indications, as a rule, will assume the form of visions and dreams and wild imaginings of various sorts. Now do you understand me?””
— Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
