| Helene Moglen - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 238 pages
...he explained in a letter to a friend that the inspiration for his fiction was given him in a dream: I waked one morning in the beginning of last June...an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine filled with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase 1 saw... | |
| Gustaw Herling-GrudziĆski - Fiction - 2003 - 302 pages
...by its creators to be related to a prison? "I waked one morning," wrote Walpole in a letter in 1783, "from a dream of which all I could recover was, that...an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine filled with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw... | |
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