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

H. G. Wells

  • 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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THE SLEEPER AWAKES

A Revised Edition of “When the Sleeper Wakes”

By H.G. Wells

1899

CONTENTS

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION

When the Sleeper Wakes, whose title I have now altered to The

Sleeper Awakes, was first published as a book in 1899 after a serial appearance in the Graphic and one or two American and colonial

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Contents

  1. THE SLEEPER AWAKES
  2. A Revised Edition of “When the Sleeper Wakes”
  3. PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION
  4. THE SLEEPER AWAKES
  5. CHAPTER I. — INSOMNIA
  6. CHAPTER II. — THE TRANCE
  7. CHAPTER III. — THE AWAKENING
  8. CHAPTER IV. — THE SOUND OF A TUMULT
  9. CHAPTER V. — THE MOVING WAYS
  10. CHAPTER VI. — THE HALL OF THE ATLAS
  11. CHAPTER VII. — IN THE SILENT ROOMS
  12. CHAPTER VIII. — THE ROOF SPACES
  13. CHAPTER IX. — THE PEOPLE MARCH
  14. CHAPTER X. — THE BATTLE OF THE DARKNESS
  15. CHAPTER XI. — THE OLD MAN WHO KNEW EVERYTHING
  16. CHAPTER XII. — OSTROG
  17. CHAPTER XIII. — THE END OF THE OLD ORDER
  18. CHAPTER XIV. — FROM THE CROW’S NEST
  19. CHAPTER XV. — PROMINENT PEOPLE
  20. CHAPTER XVI. — THE MONOPLANE
  21. CHAPTER XVII. — THREE DAYS
  22. CHAPTER XVIII. — GRAHAM REMEMBERS
  23. CHAPTER XIX. — OSTROG’S POINT OF VIEW
  24. CHAPTER XX. — IN THE CITY WAYS
  25. CHAPTER XXI. — THE UNDER-SIDE
  26. CHAPTER XXII. — THE STRUGGLE IN THE COUNCIL HOUSE
  27. CHAPTER XXIII. — GRAHAM SPEAKS HIS WORD
  28. CHAPTER XXIV. — WHILE THE AEROPLANES WERE COMING
  29. CHAPTER XXV. — THE COMING OF THE AEROPLANES
  30. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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