 First US edition with Lanos illustration | |
| Author | H. G. Wells |
|---|---|
| Original title | When The Sleeper Wakes |
| Illustrator | Henri Lanos (1859–1929) |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers (1899), Thomas Nelson & Sons |
Publication date | 1899, 1910 (at Wikisource: with 1921 preface) |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 329 (1899), 288 (1910) |
| OCLC | 1061949938 |
| LC Class | PR5774 .S57 1910[1] |
| Text | The Sleeper Awakes at Wikisource |
The Sleeper Awakes is an 1899 dystopian science fiction novel by English writer H. G. Wells, about a man who sleeps for 203 years, waking up in a completely transformed late 21st to early 22nd century London in which he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities.
The text published as The Sleeper Awakes in 1910 is a revised version of the novel When the Sleeper Wakes, which was published as a serial, then as a book, in 1899. The 2004 Project Gutenberg title page displays on four lines that suggest a subtitle: The Sleeper Awakes; A Revised Edition of “When the Sleeper Wakes”; By H. G. Wells; 1899.[2] Library of Congress Catalog uses the subtitle.[1]
- ^ a b The sleeper awakes : a revised edition of "When the sleeper wakes". Library of Congress Catalog. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
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