# The Little Dream: An Allegory in Six Scenes

Author: Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933

Genre: Category: Plays/Films/Dramas

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2910

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Little+Dream%3A+An+Allegory+in+Six+Scenes+Galsworthy&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It is just after sunset of an August evening. The scene is a room in a mountain hut, furnished only with a table, benches. and a low broad window seat. Through this window three rocky peaks are seen by the light of a moon which is slowly whitening the last hues of sunset. An oil lamp is burning. SEELCHEN, a mountain girl, eighteen years old, is humming a folk-song, and putting away in a cupboard freshly washed soup-bowls and glasses. She is dressed in a tight-fitting black velvet bodice. square-cut at the neck and partly filled in with a gay handkerchief, coloured rose-pink, blue, and golden, like the alpen-rose, the gentian, and the mountain dandelion; alabaster beads, pale as edelweiss,...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-dream-an-allegory-in-six-scenes-2910/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-dream-an-allegory-in-six-scenes-2910/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-dream-an-allegory-in-six-scenes-2910/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-dream-an-allegory-in-six-scenes-2910/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-dream-an-allegory-in-six-scenes-2910/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-little-dream-an-allegory-in-six-scenes-2910/chapters/5/index.md)