Einstein's Dreams
Ranked #11 in Time, Ranked #18 in 11th Grade — see more rankings.
A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar.
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Walter Isaacson AuthorThis is a work of fiction that weaves in the whimsy of Einstein’s days as a patent clerk in Switzerland and the types of dreams he may have had. They are little fables that come from his dreams. (Source)
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Rankings by Category
Einstein's Dreams is ranked in the following categories:
- #19 in 16-Year-Old
- #54 in Cosmology
- #63 in Physics
- #90 in Science and Math
- #71 in Time Travel
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