The Sleeper Awakes by H. G. Wells
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"The Sleeper Awakes" by H. G. Wells is a dystopian science fiction novel published in 1899 and revised in 1910. A man falls into a coma in 1897 London and awakens 203 years later to discover he has become the world's wealthiest person. His fortune has been used to create a vast plutocratic order controlling half the world. Caught between rival factions and revolutionary forces, he must navigate a nightmarish future society
where workers live in misery and his own role as figurehead threatens humanity's freedom. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 |
|---|---|
| Title |
The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleeper_Awakes |
| Credits |
Produced by Paul Murray, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 74.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | London (England) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Time travel -- Fiction |
| Subject | Twenty-first century -- Fiction |
| Subject | Dystopias -- Fiction |
| Subject | Technological innovations -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 12163 |
| Release Date | Apr 1, 2004 |
| Last Update | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 979 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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