and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. than his power of lending freshness and vitality to some well-worn formula of fiction. : When the Sleeper Wakes (9781473333741) by Wells, H. "Even in the 21st century, Wells still speaks to our fears and dreams." - The Washington Post The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors. Wells, about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London in which he has become the richest man in the world.
He awakens in a domed twenty-second-century London in which he has become-due to the compound interest on his bank accounts-the richest man in the world.īut as a nightmarish caste system is revealed, Graham realizes all his worst fears for the future have come to fruition, especially when he discovers a lower class of workers who spend their entire lives underground-a species that will soon evolve into the Morlocks of Wells's The Time Machine. About When the Sleeper Wakes Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer who is eagerly awaiting the twentieth century and all the advances it will bring, is stricken with insomnia. The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian science fiction novel by English writer H. In 1890s England, Graham, a fanatic socialist and author of prophetic writings, takes medication for his insomnia and is plunged into a deep sleep that lasts two hundred years. In When the Sleeper Wakes, he sends a nineteenth-century man hurtling into an unfamiliar dystopian future.
Wells is known for such landmark novels as The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau. While he's been asleep, much of the world has changed, including the formation of the 'White Council' who uses the fortune that Graham inherited to establish a new political and economic world order.
One of the founding fathers of science fiction, H. A Londoner named Graham takes insomnia-curing drugs on a night in 1897, but when he wakes up, he's living in 2100. From the author of The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds: "Everyone who has ever read When the Sleeper Wakes remembers it" (George Orwell).
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