num_pages: 302
description: 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.
language: English
title: When the Sleeper Wakes
titlecomplete: When the Sleeper Wakes
characters: Ostrog, Graham, Lincoln
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Fantasy, Dystopia, Novels, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Literature, Classics, Time Travel
ratings_count: 4847
places: United Kingdom
publisher: House of Stratus Ltd