The Dreamer of Dreams

About this book

A princess loses the thing she most longs to find, and a dream sends her across a landscape filled with enchantment, sorrow and extraordinary meetings.

Marie, Queen of Romania, wrote The Dreamer of Dreams as a romantic fairy tale with a personal, melancholy atmosphere. Edmund Dulac's illustrations give its imagined world jewel-like colour and elaborate pattern. The story belongs to the era of lavish gift books, when a fantastical journey could be as much an experience of looking as of reading.