When the Sleeper Awakes
About this work
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.
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Edition identifiers ISBN-13 9781789503968
Subjects
- Fiction
- Twenty-first century
- Technological innovations
- Time travel
- Science fiction
- Literature
- Classic Literature
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction, fantasy, general
- Fiction, science fiction, general
- Dystopias
- English literature