When the Sleeper Wakes

by Wells, H. G.; Lawton, John

• ISBN13: 9780460874991
• ISBN10: 0460874993
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-01-15
• Publisher: Everyman

Summary

Graham is a man of his time, a radical, a pamphleteer and something of a prophet, a man in the 1890s pushing hard at the gates of the twentieth century. but he pushes himself too hard: he suffers from crippling insomnia, and when his body finally sinks into sleep he sleeps for two hundred years.

Table of Contents

Notes on the Author	vii
Note on the Editor	ix
Chronology of Well's Life and Times	x
Introduction	xxix
Note on the Text	xlviii
WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES
Preface to the 1921 Edition	3	(2)
Insomnia	5	(10)
The Trance	15	(4)
The Awakening	19	(4)
The Sound of the Tumult	23	(12)
The Moving Ways	35	(4)
The Hall of the Atlas	39	(9)
In the Silent Rooms	48	(10)
The Roof Spaces	58	(12)
The People March	70	(6)
The Battle of the Darkness	76	(10)
The Old Man Who Knew Everything	86	(10)
Ostrog	96	(13)
The End of the Old Order	109	(4)
From the Crow's Nest	113	(14)
Prominent People	127	(11)
The Aeropile	138	(12)
Three Days	150	(5)
Graham Remembers	155	(8)
Ostrong's Point of View	163	(7)
In the City Ways	170	(18)
The Under Side	188	(6)
The Struggle in the Councial House	194	(11)
While the Aeroplanes were Coming	205	(14)
The Coming of the Aeroplanes	219	(10)
Well and His Critics	229	(15)
Suggestions for Further Reading	244	(2)
Text Summary	246	(3)
Acknowledgements	249