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The Sleeper Awakes

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1899
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  1. PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION (800 words)

    4:02

  2. INSOMNIA (2500 words)

    17:30

  3. THE TRANCE (2000 words)

    15:55

  4. THE AWAKENING (1400 words)

    11:44

  5. THE SOUND OF A TUMULT (4100 words)

    30:16

  6. THE MOVING WAYS (1400 words)

    10:49

  7. THE HALL OF THE ATLAS (2900 words)

    17:09

  8. IN THE SILENT ROOMS (3700 words)

    20:45

  9. THE ROOF SPACES (4300 words)

    25:54

  10. THE PEOPLE MARCH (2000 words)

    13:26

  11. THE BATTLE OF THE DARKNESS (4000 words)

    23:04

  12. THE OLD MAN WHO KNEW EVERYTHING (3700 words)

    27:19

  13. OSTROG (4800 words)

    29:30

  14. THE END OF THE OLD ORDER (1372 words)

    9:31

  15. FROM THE CROW'S NEST (2200 words)

    14:38

  16. PROMINENT PEOPLE (3600 words)

    26:30

  17. THE MONOPLANE (3600 words)

    25:44

  18. THREE DAYS (1800 words)

    14:27

  19. GRAHAM REMEMBERS (2800 words)

    22:02

  20. OSTROG'S POINT OF VIEW (2300 words)

    18:02

  21. IN THE CITY WAYS (6800 words)

    37:02

  22. THE UNDER-SIDE (2200 words)

    14:24

  23. THE STRUGGLE IN THE COUNCIL HOUSE (4200 words)

    25:14

  24. GRAHAM SPEAKS HIS WORD (1600 words)

    9:21

  25. WHILE THE AEROPLANES WERE COMING (1700 words)

    9:41

  26. THE COMING OF THE AEROPLANES (4000 words)

    20:10

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Graham, a troubled Londoner of the 1890s, collapses into a trance that lasts more than two centuries. He wakes to find the world transformed and himself at its center: interest on his small fortune has compounded into a vast estate, and a council ruling in his name has built a towering, mechanized London where most people live as near slaves. Hailed as the Sleeper by a restless population, he is pulled into revolt against the very system his money created. H. G. Wells uses the premise to attack unchecked capitalism and mass control, sketching an aerial, glass-and-steel future that anticipates much later science fiction. Offered here as a free PDF and EPUB edition.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography.

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Book facts

First published
1899
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
219
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Mark Nelson, Ryan Sutter, Arouet and others