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The Sleeper Awakes (1910) is a dystopian science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London where he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. The novel is a rewritten version of When the Sleeper Wakes, a story by Wells that was serialized between 1898 and 1899. Odin’s Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind’s literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

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The Sleeper Awakes (1910) is a dystopian science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London where he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities.The novel is a rewritten version of When the Sleeper Wakes, a story by Wells that was serialised between 1898 and 1899.

HERBERT GEORGE WELLS (1866-1946), born in Bromley, Kent, the son of an unsuccessful small tradesman and professional cricketer, was apprenticed to a draper in early life, a period reflected in several of his novels. He then became assistant teacher at Midhurst Grammar School, studying by night and winning a scholarship in 1884 to the Normal School of Science in South Kensington, where he came under the influence of T. H. Huxley. In 1903 he joined the Fabian Society, but was soon at odds with it; impatient and turbulent, his career as writer and thinker was marked by a provocative independence. As a novelist he is best remembered for his scientific romances, among the earliest products of the new genre of science fiction. The first, “The Time Machine” (1895), is a social allegory set in the year 80271, describing a society divided into two classes, the subterranean workers, called Morlocks, and the decadent Eloi. This was followed by “The Wonderful Visit” (1895), “The Island of Doctor Moreau” (1896), “The Invisible Man” (1897), “The War of the Worlds” (1898), “When the Sleeper Wakes” (1899), “The First Men in the Moon” (1901), and “Men Like Gods” (1923).

The Sleeper Awakes is H. G. Wells's 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.