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When the Sleeper Awakes

by H. G. Wells

1899 328 pages eng ★ 3.6 (11 ratings)

A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is h…

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