The Sleeper Awakes

The Sleeper Awakes

by H.G. Wells

The Sleeper Awakes (1910) is a revised edition of the original, When the Sleeper Awakens (1899). It is a fantastic Dystopian tale about a man who slept for two hundred and three years and awakens to discover that the income in his bank accounts has compounded, making him the richest man in the world. Graham, the protagonist, is a fanatical socialist and finds that though his dreams have been realized, they resulted in a horrible litany of unintended consequences.

The Sleeper Awakes: Up Ladders

Art by Henri Lanos, "The Sleeper Awakes" 1899

The Sleeper Awakes: Awake

The Sleeper Awakes: Flight

The Sleeper Awakes: Flight

Table of Contents

Chapter I: Insomnia
Chapter II: The Trance
Chapter III: The Awakening
Chapter IV: The Sound of the Tumult
Chapter V: Moving Ways
Chapter VI: The Hall of Atlas
Chapter VII: In the Silent Rooms
Chapter VIII: The Roof Spaces
Chapter IX: The People March
Chapter X: The Battle of the Darkness
Chapter XI: The Old Man Who Knew Everything
Chapter XII: Ostrog
Chapter XIII: The End of the Old Ruler
Chapter XIV: From the Crow's Nest
Chapter XV: Prominent People
Chapter XVI: The Aerophile
Chapter XVII: Three Days
Chapter XVIII: Graham Remembers
Chapter XIX: Ostrog's Point of View
Chapter XX: In the City Ways
Chapter XXI: The Under Side
Chapter XXII: The Struggle in the Council House
Chapter XXIII: While the Aeroplanes Were Coming
Chapter XIV: The Coming of the Aeroplanes