Sleeper Awakes

Sleeper Awakes

by H. G. Wells
Publisher: SeaWolf Press
Print-on-demand paperback, 211 pages
Price: $8.95

A classic with 15 illustrations from a first edition of When the Sleeper Wakes which was rewritten by Wells to become The Sleeper Awakes.

  • 15 original illustrations from a 1899 edition.
  • Text that has been proofread to avoid errors common in other versions.
  • A beautiful cover that replicates the 1910 American first edition.
  • The complete text in an easy-to-read font similar to the original.

The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian science fiction novel by English writer H. G. Wells, about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London in which he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realized, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. The novel is a rewritten version of When the Sleeper Wakes, a story by Wells that was serialized between 1898 and 1899.

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