When the Sleeper Wakes - Couverture souple

Wells, H.G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1554813522 ISBN 13 : 9781554813520

Editeur : Broadview Press Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

As George Orwell wrote in 1940, “Everyone who has ever read When the Sleeper Wakes remembers it.” Graham, the “sleeper” of the title, falls into a cataleptic trance in 1897. Graham will survive on life support for 203 years, suddenly waking in 2100. He wakes to a London encased in a glass dome, in which the Victorian class system has hardened into castes and a revolution is brewing. An important influence on later dystopian novels, Sleeper is a deeply pessimistic book, although Wells could not resist an ending ambiguous enough to permit the reader a faint gleam of optimism.

The novel was re-written and published in 1908 as The Sleeper Awakes, but this edition preserves the original version. Historical appendices include contemporary reviews, Henri Lanos illustrations from The Graphic, and other utopian fiction from the period.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern English Literature at University College London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Broadview Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1554813522
• ISBN 13: 9781554813520
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 294
• Éditeur: Sutherland John
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