Dissatisfied with its original form, Wells, who was an outspoken socialist and author of prophetic writings, rewrote it in 1910. " Like most of my earlier work ", he wrote in the 1910 edition 's preface, "it was written under considerable pressure ; there are marks of haste not only in the writing of the latter part, but in the very  construction of the story . "  The Sleeper Awakes, by H. G. Wells (HTML format). Project Gutenberg Ebook #12163. 2004; updated 2018. Retrieved 2020-04-22. In the 1910 edition Wells also brought the ‘flying machines’ up to date.
When the book was about to be reprinted again, Wells used this opportunity " to make a number of excisions and alterations ", and changed its title to The Sleeper Awakes. As he explains in the preface of the 1910 edition , he was overworked and wrote under considerable pressure when he authored the original version simultaneously with another novel called Love and Mr. Lewisham, in addition to his journalistic tasks. Before going on a "badly needed holiday" to Italy, he felt he had to complete one of the two novels, and so rushed the ending on When the Sleeper Wakes just to finish it, hoping to return to it when he came back to England and before it went into print. But when he got home he fell seriously ill, and after forcing himself to complete Love and Mr. Lewisham, he never got the chance to do any rewriting of When the Sleeper Wakes before it was published. What he disliked about it was the construction of the story and the rushed latter part. But so many years have passed that he claimed he could no longer identify with his younger self, and so the work felt too remote for him to do any significant reconstruction. Instead he played the role of the " editorial elder brother" and cut some passages that felt redundant, improved certain "clumsy phrases and repetitions", straightened out some ambivalences at the end, and removed all signs of any love interest between characters. The Sleeper Awakes, by H. G. Wells (HTML format). Project Gutenberg Ebook #12163. 2004; updated 2018. Retrieved 2020-04-22. In the 1910 edition Wells also brought the ‘flying machines’ up to date.
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