The Sleeper Awakes
A fascinating and prescient account of a future dominated by capitalist greed and mechanical force
A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. Oppressed and uneducated, the masses cling desperately to one dream - that the sleeper will awake, and lead them all…
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H.G. Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, in 1866. After an education repeatedly interrupted by his family’s financial problems, he eventually found work as a teacher at a succession of schools, where he began to write his first stories.
Wells became a prolific writer with a diverse output, of which the famous works are his science fiction novels. These are some of the earliest and most influential examples of the genre, and include classics such as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. Most of his books very well-received, and had a huge influence on many younger writers, including George Orwell and Isaac Asimov. Wells also wrote many popular non-fiction books, and used his writing to support the…
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells; Edited by Patrick Parrinder; Introduction by Brian Aldiss; Notes byAndy Sawyer; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau
H.G. Wells
The Great Science Fiction
H. G. Wells
The Rights of Man
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells, with an Introduction by Greg Bear and an Afterword by Simon James
The Island of Dr. Moreau
H.G. Wells with an Introduction by Dr. Nita A. Farahany and an Afterword by Dr. John L. Flynn
Penguin English Library the Time Machine
H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells
Girlfriend on Mars
Deborah Willis
Absolution
Jeff VanderMeer
Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition)
David Mitchell
The Book of Elsewhere
Keanu Reeves and China Miéville
Prophet
Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché
The Ferryman
Justin Cronin
Do You Remember Being Born?
Sean Michaels
The Apollo Murders
Chris Hadfield
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
They
Kay Dick
Utopia Avenue
David Mitchell
The End of Men
Christina Sweeney-Baird
Frankissstein
Jeanette Winterson
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux; Translated and Edited by Mireille Ribière; Introduction by Jann Matlock; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice & Other Stories
Thomas Mann
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
River Stories
Edited by Henry Hughes
Monkey King
Wu Cheng'en; Edited and Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Julia Lovell; Foreword by Gene Luen Yang
Emma
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Diary of an Ordinary Woman
Margaret Forster