THE SLEEPER AWAKES

A Revised Edition of “When the Sleeper Wakes”

By H.G. Wells

1899




CONTENTS

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION

THE SLEEPER AWAKES

CHAPTER I. — INSOMNIA

CHAPTER II. — THE TRANCE

CHAPTER III. — THE AWAKENING

CHAPTER IV. — THE SOUND OF A TUMULT

CHAPTER V. — THE MOVING WAYS

CHAPTER VI. — THE HALL OF THE 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 ORDER

CHAPTER XIV. — FROM THE CROW’S NEST

CHAPTER XV. — PROMINENT PEOPLE

CHAPTER XVI. — THE MONOPLANE

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. — GRAHAM SPEAKS HIS WORD

CHAPTER XXIV. — WHILE THE AEROPLANES WERE COMING

CHAPTER XXV. — THE COMING OF THE AEROPLANES








PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION

When the Sleeper Wakes, whose title I have now altered to The Sleeper Awakes, was first published as a book in 1899 after a serial appearance in the Graphic and one or two American and colonial periodicals. It is one of the most ambitious and least satisfactory of my books, and I have taken the opportunity afforded by this reprinting to make a number of excisions and alterations. Like most of my earlier work, it was written under considerable pressure; there are marks of haste not

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