The Sleeper Awakes

by H. G. Wells, J. Gregory Keyes (Editor), Gareth Davies-Morris (Afterword), J. Gregory Keyes (Introduction), H. G. Wells (Revised by)

Overview

The Sleeper Awakes is H. G. Wells's wildly imaginative story of London in the twenty-second century and the man who by accident becomes owner and master of the world. In 1897 a Victorian gentleman falls into a sleep from which he cannot be waked. During his two centuries of slumber he becomes the Sleeper, the most well known and powerful person in the world. All property is bequeathed to the Sleeper to be administered by a Council on his behalf. The common people, increasingly oppressed, view the Sleeper as a mythical liberator whose awakening will free them from misery.

The Sleeper awakes in 2100 to a futuristic London adorned with wondrous technological trappings yet staggering under social injustice and escalating unrest. His awakening sends shock waves throughout London, from the highest meetings of the Council to the workers laboring in factories in the bowels of the city. Daring rescues and villainous treachery abound as workers and capitalists fight desperately for control of the Sleeper.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803298187
Publisher:	UNP - Bison Books
Publication date:	09/01/2000
Series:	Bison Frontiers of Imagination
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) is one of the most influential figures in the history of science fiction. This commemorative edition of The Sleeper Awakes features Wells's preferred revision of the novel—published in 1910 and never before widely available in the United States—and his prefaces to the 1910 and 1921 editions. Introducer J. Gregory Keyes is the author of the acclaimed series Chosen of the Changeling and Age of Unreason. Gareth Davies-Morris has contributed a new afterword. He teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University.

Date of Birth:

September 21, 1866

Date of Death:

August 13, 1946

Place of Birth:

Bromley, Kent, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Normal School of Science, London, England

Table of Contents

	Preface	i
1	Insomnia	1
2	The Trance	11
3	The Awakening	19
4	The Sound of a Tumult	25
5	The Moving Ways	41
6	The Hall of the Atlas	47
7	In the Silent Rooms	59
8	The Roof Spaces	73
9	The People March	89
10	The Battle of the Darkness	97
11	The Old Man Who Knew Everything	111
12	Ostrog	125
13	The End of the Old Order	143
14	From the Crow's Nest	149
15	Prominent People	157
16	The Monoplane	171
17	Three Days	183
18	Graham Remembers	191
19	Ostrog's Point of View	203
20	In the City Ways	213
21	The Under Side	237
22	The Struggle in the Council House	245
23	Graham Speaks His Word	261
24	While the Aeroplanes Were Coming	267
25	The Coming of the Aeroplanes	275

Editorial Reviews

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