When the Sleeper Wakes
by H. G. Wells
1899
Number of pages: 274
Description:
A dystopian science fiction novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London where he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities.
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