The Sleeper Awakes (Paperback, New ed)

A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. Oppressed and uneducated, the masses cling desperately to one dream - that the sleeper will awake, and lead them all to freedom.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2005
First published:	April 2006
Authors:	H. G. Wells
Introduction by:	Patrick Parrinder
Notes by:	Andy Sawyer
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	252
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-144106-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Science fiction
LSN:	0-14-144106-2
Barcode:	9780141441061

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