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"When the Sleeper Wakes" is a dystopian novel by British author H. G. Wells, first published in serial form in The Graphic between 1899 and 1903. In 1910, Wells expanded the story into the full-length novel "The Sleeper Awakes", published by Harper & Brothers.
"The Sleeper Awakes" is a fantastic Dystopian tale about Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer who is eagerly awaiting the twentieth century and all the advances it will bring and who 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 realise that not everyone adores him, some even wish to harm him.
The novel is his version of the familiar trope of the man who falls asleep for an unnaturally long period of time and wakes up in a future where everything has changed, where a new civilisation is in place.
Invariably, the civilisation of the future is shown to have either solved or exacerbated what the author sees as the great social issues of his own day so that the genre offers an author free rein to make prophecies and predictions, as well as working in as much social and political satire, as he or she wants.
Wells had joined the left-wing Fabian Society in 1903 and had quickly become one of its most famous publicists and promoters. By 1910 his views on politics and society were well-known and the 1910 version of the book brings these out more clearly, as well as trying to sort out infelicities in the writing.
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GenreDystopia, Literary Classics, General Fiction
Length8 hrs 38 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 30, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface To The New Edition
2Chapter 1. Insomnia
3Chapter 2. The Trance
4Chapter 3. The Awakening
5Chapter 4. The Sound Of A Tumult
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6Chapter 5. The Moving Ways
7Chapter 6. The Hall Of The Atlas
8Chapter 7. In The Silent Rooms
9Chapter 8. The Roof Spaces
10Chapter 9. The People March
11Chapter 10. The Battle Of The Darkness
12Chapter 11. The Old Man Who Knew Everything
13Chapter 12. Ostrog
14Chapter 13. The End Of The Old Order
15Chapter 14. From The Crow's Nest
16Chapter 15. Prominent People
17Chapter 16. The Monoplane
18Chapter 17. Three Days
19Chapter 18. Graham Remembers
20Chapter 19. Ostrog's Point Of View
21Chapter 20. In The City Ways
22Chapter 21. The Under-Side
23Chapter 22. The Struggle In The Council House
24Chapter 23. Graham Speaks His Word
25Chapter 24. While The Aeroplanes Were Coming
26Chapter 25. The Coming Of The Aeroplanes
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