The Dream

Le rêve (The Dream) is the sixteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Emile Zola.
The novel was published by Charpentier in October 1888 and translated into English by Eliza E. Chase as The Dream in 1893 (reprinted in 2005). Other recent translations are by Michael Glencross (Peter Owen 2005) and Andrew Brown (Hesperus Press 2005).
The novel was dramatized as an opera in four acts composed by Alfred Bruneau, produced June 18, 1891, at the Opéra-Comique to a libretto by Louis Gallet.
The novel covers the years 1860–1869.