Orphaned as a boy and exiled from his idyllic French childhood to a joyless life in London, a man discovers decades later that he can meet his first love in shared, lucid dreams that let them relive and even reshape the past together.
Books mentioned in Peter Ibbetson (15)
To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant: “Under an engraving of a wild duck (after Bewick, I believe) were quoted W.C. Bryant's lines "To a Water-fowl."”
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: “and read _Les Trois Mousquetaires_ in the cloisters of Bluefriars”
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: “and read _Les Trois Mousquetaires_ in the cloisters of Bluefriars, or _Ivanhoe_ in the dull, dusty prison-yard”
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss: “I (to please her mother) would read to her _Le Robinson Suisse_, _Sandford and Merton_, _Evenings at Home_”
Evenings at Home by John Aikin and Anna Laetitia Barbauld: “_Le Robinson Suisse_, _Sandford and Merton_, _Evenings at Home_, _Les Contes de Madame Perrault_”
Perrault's Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault: “_Evenings at Home_, _Les Contes de Madame Perrault_, the shipwreck from "Don Juan," of which we never tired”
Don Juan by George Gordon Byron: “the shipwreck from "Don Juan," of which we never tired, and the "Giaour,"”
The Giaour by Byron: “the shipwreck from "Don Juan," of which we never tired, and the "Giaour," the "Corsair," and "Mazeppa"”
The Corsair by Byron: “the "Giaour," the "Corsair," and "Mazeppa"; and last, but not least, _Peter Parleys Natural History_”
Mazeppa by Byron: “the "Giaour," the "Corsair," and "Mazeppa"; and last, but not least, _Peter Parleys Natural History_”
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: “Then came the Count of Monte-Cristo, who taught me (only too well) his terrible lesson of hatred and revenge”
The Mysteries of Paris by Eugène Sue: “and _Les Mystères de Paris, Le Juif Errant_, and others.”
The Wandering Jew by Eugene Sue: “Then came the Count of Monte-Cristo, who taught me (only too well) his terrible lesson of hatred and revenge; and _Les Mystères de Paris, Le Juif Errant_, and others.”