The Sleeper Awakes

The Sleeper Awakes  (1910)  by H. G. Wells

1910. The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel by H. G. Wells about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest on his bank accounts, he has become the richest man in the world. A fanatic socialist and author of prophetic writings, the main character awakes to see his dreams realized, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities.— Excerpted from The Sleeper Awakes on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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