The story is based on social class division, dehumanization, and awareness of the injustice practiced under authoritarian authority. So, this begins his instructive adventure as he discovers the unsettling policies of the ruling power and is forced to make a decision about whether to live up to his role as a rescuer or give up his voice to the existing power. Therefore, Graham is forced to handle his renowned position in society as well as develop a leader to lead the revolution to adjust to the strange futuristic environment. His awakening sparks to present a personal struggle with confusion and a massive uprising that tries to overbalance the ruling elite.
He learns that he has inherited huge wealth and that the trustees of the "White Council" have used his wealth to establish a political and economic world order. Wells, it tells the story of a man, Graham, an Englishman, living in London who falls asleep in the year 1897 and wakes up 203 years later to find that the accumulated interest in his bank deposit has left him the richest man in the world and nominally its owner. (#111306).The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel written by H. Touch of sunning to spine panel, two faint, tiny water strikes to same, else a bright, near fine copy.
Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1176. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 803. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2332.
a vividly exciting story." - Bleiler (ed), Science Fiction Writers, p. NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, and in the whole tide of nightmare fiction that followed Hiroshima." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. its disturbing images recur again and again. According to Wells, this novel depicts "our contemporary world in a state of highly inflamed distention." "Whatever actual future history may unfold, the shadow of Wells's frightening visions has lain dark over the most influential current science fiction for nearly a century. Lanos, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. 2-328, three inserted plates with illustrations by H. London and New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899.
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