When the Sleeper Wakes
by H. G. Wells
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"Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer who is eagerly awaiting the twentieth century and all the advances it will bring, is stricken with insomnia. Finally resorting to medication, he instantly falls into a deep sleep that lasts two hundred years. Upon waking in the twenty-second century to a strange and nightmarish place, he slowly discovers he is master of the world, revered by an adoring populace who consider him their leader. Terrified, he escapes from his chamber, seeking solace-- only to realize that not everyone adores him. In fact, some wish to destroy him."--Back cover.
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Fiction, Twenty-first century, Technological innovations, Time travel, Science fiction, Literature, Classic Literature, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, science fiction, general, Dystopias, English literature, Twenty-second centuryPlaces
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When the Sleeper Wakes
2003, Modern Library
in English
- Modern Library pbk. ed.
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A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. Oppressed and uneducated, the masses cling desperately to one dream – that the sleeper will awake, and lead them all to freedom.
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