Shelter of Dreams

“The House of Dreams” is the hospitable home of an artist in a provincial German town. Its inhabitants are young people whose souls are beautiful and open, whose thoughts are pure, and whose hearts are full of hope. Having loved for the first time, they will endure separation and betrayal, and return again to what they love, while the old artist, leaving this world, bequeaths to them his love of life and art. They are so far away from the devastated and humiliated Germany of the 1920s.

Mocked by critics for their naivety and sentimentality, the twenty-two-year-old author of “The House of Dreams” swore never to take up the pen again. As a result, the great Remarque was born—and his first novel is right in front of you.