The sleeper awakes
By: H.G. Wells ; edited with an introduction by Patrick Parrinder ; notes by Andy Sawyer
Contributors: Parrinder, Patrick; Sawyer, Andy
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Description: A troubled English insomniac falls into a sleeplike trance in the 1890s, waking 200 years later. He finds the investments made in his name are being used to maintain a hierarchical, oppressive society. Those at the lowest rung have one hope-- that the sleeper will awake and free them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references