1963 Heritage club Sandglass edition in slipcover. Peter Ibbetson by George Du Maurier is a romantic novel with tones of melancholy and a paranormal twist. A shared dream brings together two lovers who are otherwise separated in reality. In reality, class and circumstance separate the two but a lucid dream connects the two. Maurier, best known for his political satire and cartoons in Punch, turned novelist with this, his first novel.