In the dystopian vision of H. G. Wells' novel The Sleeper Awakes (1910), a man awakes to a London where all he knew has radically changed after his sleep of two hundred and three years. Due to the wonders of compound interest, he is now this later...
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In the dystopian vision of H. G. Wells' novel The Sleeper Awakes (1910), a man awakes to a London where all he knew has radically changed after his sleep of two hundred and three years. Due to the wonders of compound interest, he is now this later world's richest man. As a committed socialist and futurist, he now sees his dreams realized and revealed to him in all their abhorrent and frightful glory
Title; Contents; Preface to the New Edition; Chapter I Insomnia; Chapter II The Trance; Chapter III The Awakening; Chapter IV The Sound of a Tumult; Chapter V The Moving Ways; Chapter VI The Hall of the Atlas; Chapter VII In the Silent Rooms; Chapter VIII The Roof Spaces; Chapter IX The People March; Chapter X The Battle of the Darkness; Chapter XI The Old Man Who Knew Everything; Chapter XII Ostrog; Chapter XIII The End of the Old Order; Chapter XIV From the Crow's Nest; Chapter XV Prominent People; Chapter XVI The Monoplane; Chapter XVII Three Days; Chapter XVIII Graham Remembers
Chapter XIX Ostrog's Point of ViewChapter XX In the City Ways; Chapter XXI The Under-Side; Chapter XXII The Struggle in the Council House; Chapter XXIII Graham Speaks His Word; Chapter XXIV While the Aeroplanes Were Coming; Chapter XXV The Coming of the Aeroplanes;
