The Sleeper Awakes / A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes

Fantasy
Book language: English
203 pages

The Sleeper Awakes is H. G. Wells's revised edition of his novel When the Sleeper Wakes. A man falls into a centuries-long sleep and wakes in a future London, where he is both honoured and manipulated by a vast social order. This early dystopian science fiction invites reflection on wealth, power and technological change.

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Contents

THE SLEEPER AWAKES
A Revised Edition of “When the Sleeper Wakes”
PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION
THE SLEEPER AWAKES
CHAPTER I. — INSOMNIA
CHAPTER II. — THE TRANCE
CHAPTER III. — THE AWAKENING
CHAPTER IV. — THE SOUND OF A TUMULT
CHAPTER V. — THE MOVING WAYS
CHAPTER VI. — THE HALL OF THE ATLAS
CHAPTER VII. — IN THE SILENT ROOMS
CHAPTER VIII. — THE ROOF SPACES
CHAPTER IX. — THE PEOPLE MARCH
CHAPTER X. — THE BATTLE OF THE DARKNESS
CHAPTER XI. — THE OLD MAN WHO KNEW EVERYTHING
CHAPTER XII. — OSTROG
CHAPTER XIII. — THE END OF THE OLD ORDER
CHAPTER XIV. — FROM THE CROW’S NEST
CHAPTER XV. — PROMINENT PEOPLE
CHAPTER XVI. — THE MONOPLANE
CHAPTER XVII. — THREE DAYS
CHAPTER XVIII. — GRAHAM REMEMBERS
CHAPTER XIX. — OSTROG’S POINT OF VIEW
CHAPTER XX. — IN THE CITY WAYS
CHAPTER XXI. — THE UNDER-SIDE
CHAPTER XXII. — THE STRUGGLE IN THE COUNCIL HOUSE
CHAPTER XXIII. — GRAHAM SPEAKS HIS WORD
CHAPTER XXIV. — WHILE THE AEROPLANES WERE COMING
CHAPTER XXV. — THE COMING OF THE AEROPLANES
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