Wells, H: When the Sleeper Wakes

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-55481-352-0
Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

As George Orwell wrote in 1940, “Everyone who has ever read When the Sleeper Wakes remembers it.” Graham, the “sleeper” of the title, falls into a cataleptic trance in 1897. Graham will survive on life support for 203 years, suddenly waking in 2100. He wakes to a London encased in a glass dome, in which the Victorian class system has hardened into castes and a revolution is brewing. An important influence on later dystopian novels, Sleeper is a deeply pessimistic book, although Wells could not resist an ending ambiguous enough to permit the reader a faint gleam of optimism.

The novel was re-written and published in 1908 as The Sleeper Awakes, but this edition preserves the original version.

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Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews
- 1. Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine (June 1900)
- 2. Athenæum (3 June 1899)
- 3. “Prophet vs. Novelist,” Academy (10 June 1899)
- 4. New York Times, 18 August 1899
- Appendix B: Two Prefaces and an “Afterword”
- 1. Preface to the 1910 Edition
- 2. Preface to the 1921 Edition
- 3. From Experiment in Autobiography (1934)
- Appendix C: Illustrations by Henri Lanos
- 1. The Graphic, no. 1529 (21 January 1899)
- 2. The Graphic, no. 1529 (4 February 1899)
- 3. The Graphic, no. 1529 (25 February 1899)
- 4. The Graphic, no. 1529 (29 April 1899)
- Appendix D: Utopian Quarrels
- 1. From W.H. Hudson, A Crystal Age (1887)
- 2. From William Morris, News from Nowhere (1891)
- 3. From Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1889)
- Appendix E: Film Versions of When the Sleeper Wakes

Über Autor(innen)

John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern English Literature at University College London.