The Sleeper Awakes, by H. G. Wells

Contents

Preface To The New EditionChapter 1. InsomniaChapter 2. The TranceChapter 3. The AwakeningChapter 4. The Sound Of A TumultChapter 5. The Moving WaysChapter 6. The Hall Of The AtlasChapter 7. In The Silent RoomsChapter 8. The Roof SpacesChapter 9. The People MarchChapter 10. The Battle Of The DarknessChapter 11. The Old Man Who Knew EverythingChapter 12. OstrogChapter 13. The End Of The Old OrderChapter 14. From The Crow’s NestChapter 15. Prominent PeopleChapter 16. The MonoplaneChapter 17. Three DaysChapter 18. Graham RemembersChapter 19. Ostrog’s Point Of ViewChapter 20. In The City WaysChapter 21. The Under-SideChapter 22. The Struggle In The Council HouseChapter 23. Graham Speaks His WordChapter 24. While The Aeroplanes Were ComingChapter 25. The Coming Of The Aeroplanes

Preface To The New Edition

When the Sleeper Wakes, whose title I have now altered to The Sleeper Awakes, was first published as a book in 1899 after a serial appearance in the Graphic and one or two American and colonial periodicals. It is one of the most ambitious and least satisfactory of my books, and I have taken the opportunity afforded by this reprinting to make a number of excisions and alterations. Like most of my earlier work, 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.