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THE SLEEPER AWAKES IBD

HERBERT GEORGE WELLS
AZILOTH BOOKS
10 / 2013
9781909735262
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Sinopsis

Unlike his later, more optimistic works, H. G. Wells', earlier books display a deep mistrust of science and ',progress',. The Sleeper Awakesáis arguably the starkest and most pessimistic of these dystopian novels. It tells the tale of Graham, a chronic insomniac who falls into a coma-like sleep, from which he emerges over two hundred years later, to discover that investments willed to him by two childless industrialists have borne such fruit that he - The Sleeper &ndash, is now the owner of half the world. A ',Council', rules despotically in The Sleeper',s name, presiding over a futuristic society of surpassing ugliness, with the uneducated masses themselves deeply asleep &ndash, their minds clouded by incessant propaganda and with no right to either property or privacy. Appalled, Graham strives for change, and finds himself regarded as a Messiah by the impoverished masses. But can The Sleeper alone sustain the revolution? And is he willing to make the ultimate sacrifice?

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