The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes
| Language | en |
|---|---|
| First published | 2004-04-01 |
| Rights | Public domain in the USA. |
| Gutenberg ID | #12163 |
Description
"The Sleeper Awakes" by H. G. Wells is a dystopian science fiction novel published in 1899 and revised in 1910. A man falls into a coma in 1897 London and awakens 203 years later to discover he has become the world's wealthiest person. His fortune has been used to create a vast plutocratic order controlling half the world. Caught between rival factions and revolutionary forces, he must navigate a nightmarish future society where workers live in misery and his own role as figurehead threatens humanity's freedom. (This is an automatically generated summary.)