Download or read book When the Sleeper Wakes written by H. G. Wells and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-02 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian science fiction novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest on his bank accounts, he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realized, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), known as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games.