The Sleeper Awakes

A man falls into a trance and wakes two centuries later to find his tiny savings have compounded into ownership of the world. H.G.

At a glance Wells turns that premise into a dizzying vision of future London and mass revolt. Imagine closing your eyes on a familiar evening and opening them on a city of aerial… Wells built The Sleeper Awakes around exactly that vertigo, and the result is one of his… What it's about Graham, an insomniac Victorian, falls into a cataleptic sleep and does…

Graham, an insomniac Victorian, falls into a cataleptic sleep and does not wake for more than two hundred years.