“The Dream (1888).” The sixteenth novel by Émile Zola from the Rougon-Macquart cycle, devoted to the representatives of one family living in the years of the Second Empire—the period of Napoleon III’s dictatorship. A romantic story about a girl living in 19th-century Paris. When you truly believe in something, you picture invented events in the smallest details—and a miracle must happen. It must happen…