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The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel written by H. G. Wells, it tells the story of a man, Graham, an Englishman, living in London who falls asleep in the year 1897 and wakes up 203 years later to find that the accumulated interest in his bank deposit has left him the richest man in the world and nominally its owner. He learns that he has inherited huge wealth and that the trustees of the "White Council" have used his wealth to establish a political and economic world order. His awakening sparks to present a personal struggle with confusion and a massive uprising that tries to overbalance the ruling elite. Therefore, Graham is forced to handle his renowned position in society as well as develop a leader to lead the revolution to adjust to the strange futuristic environment. So, this begins his instructive adventure as he discovers the unsettling policies of the ruling power and is forced to make a decision about whether to live up to his role as a rescuer or give up his voice to the existing power. The story is based on social class division, dehumanization, and awareness of the injustice practiced under authoritarian authority. To read this compelling and insightful piece of literature, you need to read the complete story!
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9789357483285 |
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Publisher: | Double 9 Booksllp |
Publication date: | 01/02/2023 |
Pages: | 204 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.47(d) |
About the Author
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Herbert George Wells was born on 21 September, 1866. He was an English author. He wrote many books, brief tales, and works of social discourse, history, parody, account, and self-portrayal. Two of his books were written on recreational war games. In the present times, Wells is known for his sci-fi books and is frequently called the father of sci-fi"". In his own lifespan, he was regarded as a forward-looking, social critic who gave his scholarly abilities to the improvement of an ever-evolving vision on a worldwide scale. As a futurist, he composed various idealistic works and predicted the approach of an airplane, tanks, space travel, atomic weapons, satellite TV, and something that seemed similar to the World Wide Web. His sci-fis were based upon topics like time travel, allien intrusion, invisibility, and bio-engineering. Brian Aldiss alluded to Wells as the ""Shakespeare of sci-fi"", while American essayist Charles Fort alluded to him as a ""wild ability"". Wells delivered his works persuading by imparting ordinary detail close by a solitary phenomenal suspicion for every work - named ""Wells' regulation"" - allowing Joseph Conrad to hail him in 1898 as ""O Realist of the Fantastic!"". His most striking sci-fi works incorporate The Time Machine (1895), which was his first novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), and the tactical sci-fi The War in the Air (1907). Wells got nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Wells was professionally trained in biology and his reasoning on legal matters occurred in a context that referred to Darwin. He was a frank communist since early on, frequently (however not generally, as toward the start of the First World War) identifying with conservative perspectives. His later works turned out to be progressively political and instructional. Books, for example, Kipps and The History of Mr. Polly, which portray lower-working class life, prompted the idea that he was the deserved successor to Charles Dickens, however, Wells depicted a scope of social layers and tries to bring out the English society as a whole in Tono-Bungay (1909). Wells was diabetic and was the co-founder of the foundation 'The Diabetic Association' (referred to now as Diabetes UK) in 1934.
Date of Birth:
September 21, 1866Date of Death:
August 13, 1946Place of Birth:
Bromley, Kent, EnglandPlace of Death:
London, EnglandEducation:
Normal School of Science, London, EnglandTable of Contents
Preface | i | |
1 | Insomnia | 1 |
2 | The Trance | 11 |
3 | The Awakening | 19 |
4 | The Sound of a Tumult | 25 |
5 | The Moving Ways | 41 |
6 | The Hall of the Atlas | 47 |
7 | In the Silent Rooms | 59 |
8 | The Roof Spaces | 73 |
9 | The People March | 89 |
10 | The Battle of the Darkness | 97 |
11 | The Old Man Who Knew Everything | 111 |
12 | Ostrog | 125 |
13 | The End of the Old Order | 143 |
14 | From the Crow's Nest | 149 |
15 | Prominent People | 157 |
16 | The Monoplane | 171 |
17 | Three Days | 183 |
18 | Graham Remembers | 191 |
19 | Ostrog's Point of View | 203 |
20 | In the City Ways | 213 |
21 | The Under Side | 237 |
22 | The Struggle in the Council House | 245 |
23 | Graham Speaks His Word | 261 |
24 | While the Aeroplanes Were Coming | 267 |
25 | The Coming of the Aeroplanes | 275 |
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