When the sleeper wakes /
As George Orwell wrote in 1940, "Everyone who has ever read When the Sleeper Wakes remembers it." Graham, the "sleeper" of the title, falls into a cataleptic trance in 1897. Graham will survive on life support for 203 years, suddenly waking in 2100. He wakes to a London encased i...
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| Language: | English |
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Peterborough, Ontario :
Broadview Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Broadview editions.
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| Summary: | As George Orwell wrote in 1940, "Everyone who has ever read When the Sleeper Wakes remembers it." Graham, the "sleeper" of the title, falls into a cataleptic trance in 1897. Graham will survive on life support for 203 years, suddenly waking in 2100. He wakes to a London encased in a glass dome, in which the Victorian class system has hardened into castes and a revolution is brewing. An important influence on later dystopian novels, Sleeper is a deeply pessimistic book, although Wells could not resist an ending ambiguous enough to permit the reader a faint gleam of optimism. The novel was rewritten and published in 1908 as The Sleeper Awakes, but this edition preserves the original version. |
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| Physical Description: | 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-292). |
| ISBN: | 9781554813520 1554813522 |