Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland, Russell Stannard, George Gamow

A modest bank clerk, Mr. Tompkins decides somewhat by chance to attend a lecture with a very serious title: Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Does this gentle little man, with his wavering attention and fiery imagination, suspect that this decision spells the end of his peace of mind? Indeed, he is immediately swept up in the adventure of modern physics... against his will, as his initiation into cosmic mysteries happens through his dreams! The dream world then opens the door to the infinitely small as well as the infinitely large, and from quarks to quanta, from fusions to fissions, and from superstrings to black holes, his passionate exploration takes him to the farthest reaches of the Universe.