The Sleeper Awakes
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Title
- Chapter 1 - INSOMNIA
- Chapter 2 - THE TRANCE
- Chapter 3 - THE AWAKENING
- Chapter 4 - THE SOUND OF A TUMULT
- Chapter 5 - THE MOVING WAYS
- Chapter 6 - THE HALL OF THE ATLAS
- Chapter 7 - IN THE SILENT ROOMS
- Chapter 8 - THE ROOF SPACES
- Chapter 9 - THE PEOPLE MARCH
- Chapter 10 - THE BATTLE OF THE DARKNESS
- Chapter 11 - THE OLD MAN WHO KNEW EVERYTHING
- Chapter 12 - OSTROG
- Chapter 13 - THE END OF THE OLD ORDER
- Chapter 14 - FROM THE CROW'S NEST
- Chapter 15 - PROMINENT PEOPLE
- Chapter 16 - THE MONOPLANE
- Chapter 17 - THREE DAYS
- Chapter 18 - GRAHAM REMEMBERS
- Chapter 19 - OSTROG'S POINT OF VIEW
- Chapter 20 - IN THE CITY WAYS
- Chapter 21 - THE UNDER-SIDE
- Chapter 22 - THE STRUGGLE IN THE COUNCIL HOUSE
- Chapter 23 - GRAHAM SPEAKS HIS WORD
- Chapter 24 - WHILE THE AEROPLANES WERE COMING
- Chapter 25 - THE COMING OF THE AEROPLANES
