![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Upon first awakening, Graham is extremely confused and suffers from severe culture shock. ![]() Over the years, the trust, known as the White Council, used Graham's unprecedented wealth to establish a vast political and economic world order. He soon finds out that he has inherited sizeable wealth from his cousin Warmings and a friend of his, Isbister. He sleeps over the course of decades, and awakens exactly 203 years later, in futuristic 2100. One day, he suddenly falls into a strange coma-like "trance", due to his dabbling in drugs to cure a prolonged and serious insomnia. The story follows the fortunes of a late nineteenth century Englishman identified only as Graham, living in London in 1897. Lua error in a at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The short story " A Story of the Days To Come" (1897) is a forerunner of the novel, being a tale set within the same future society. "Like most of my earlier work", he wrote in the 1910 edition's preface, "it was written under considerable pressure there are marks of haste not only in the writing of the latter part, but in the very construction of the story". Dissatisfied with its original form, Wells, who was an outspoken socialist and author of prophetic writings, rewrote it in 1910. The novel was originally published, as When the Sleeper Wakes, in The Graphic from 1898 to 1903 and illustrated by H. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |