The complete online text of Dream Life by Donald Grant Mitchell.

Donald Grant Mitchell (12 April 1822-15 December 1908), essayist and editor, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, and educated at Yale University, from which he graduated in 1841. Mitchell spent most of his life alternating between farming at his Connecticu...

The name Donald Grant Mitchell remains virtually unknown today, though at the time of Mitchell's death in 1908 he was one of the most highly regarded American writers of the nineteenth century. If known at all today, he would most likely be recognized by...

So where do you find Truly Weird America these days? Does the “Ghost World” exist any more? The Old, Weird America: That was the title of Greil Marcus’ admirably eccentric and illuminating book on the obscure sources of the Basement Tapes; it was the world...

So where do you find Truly Weird America these days? Does the “Ghost World” exist any more?The Old, Weird America: That was the title of Greil Marcus’ admirably eccentric and illuminating book on the obscure sources of the Basement Tapes; it was the world of...