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Unlike his later, more optimistic works, H G Wells' earlier books display a deep mistrust of science and 'progress'. 'The Sleeper Awakes' is 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 - 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 - 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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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Fiction & related items Science fiction Classic science fiction

• Plný název: Sleeper Awakes
• Autor: Herbert George Wells
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 174
• EAN: 9781909735262
• ISBN: 9781909735262
• ID: 08868601
• Nakladatelství: Aziloth Books
• Hmotnost: 261 g
• Rozměry: 234 × 156 × 6 mm
• Datum vydání: 23. October 2013

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