H. G. Wells ~5 hr read

A man falls into a trance and wakes two centuries later to find that the interest on his fortune has made him, in his sleep, the master of the world.

This Finnish edition presents H. G. Wells's 'When the Sleeper Wakes,' his dystopian vision of a stratified future megacity. Prophetic, powerful, foundational. Read it for a classic Wells scientific romance of a sleeper who wakes to own everything, and the revolution his awakening sparks.

In its time

Published in 1899, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).