Bibliograph

The sleeper awakes, H.G. Wells ; edited with an introduction by Patrick Parrinder ; notes by Andy Sawyer

Type

Label

The sleeper awakes, H.G. Wells ; edited with an introduction by Patrick Parrinder ; notes by Andy Sawyer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The sleeper awakes

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

57382315

Responsibility statement

H.G. Wells ; edited with an introduction by Patrick Parrinder ; notes by Andy Sawyer

Series statement

Penguin classics

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

Classification