Cover of The Sleeper Awakes by H. G. Wells Audiobook The Sleeper Awakes
Audiobook · Fantastica

The Sleeper Awakes

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
Sebastian Blackwood
Language
English
Length
7 hours 31 minutes
ISBN
9781787369849
Published
23 April 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • time travel
  • dystopia
  • social revolution
  • wealth disparity
  • futuristic society
  • political power
  • utopia vs. dystopia
  • class struggle
  • awakening
  • societal change

Description

Insomniac Graham wakes two centuries later as the richest man alive in a dystopian order that oppresses the many under a false utopia. Wells?s novel of unintended empire, moral burden, and a fight for real freedom. Spoken as when sleep steals your century and returns you as the power everyone else already serves.

Author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, trained in biology under Huxley, and turned that laboratory habit into fiction. The Time Machine sent a Victorian into deep time; The War of the Worlds brought the sky down on the Home Counties. He wrote as if the future were a social problem with monsters attached. The novels argue while they entertain. A draper's son who made scientific romance a public language.