When the sleeper wakes

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866-1946 (Author). Case, David. (Narrator).

Summary: Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer, was a young man when he finally resorted to medication for his insomnia and fell into a deep sleep. He wakes two hundred years later, still youthful, to an age of great marvels and scientific achievement-and a world whose strange underlying economy is that it is all his private property. By inheritance and the compounding of interest, Graham the Sleeper has become the sole, final owner of everything, and revered as a leader, with a council that dictates to the world in his name. This science fiction classic was called by Wells himself "one of the most ambitious of my books." A stirringly prophetic novel, it envisioned flying, advertising, television, banking, labor organization, and totalitarianism, all within the framework of an exciting personal adventure story.

Record details

ISBN: 9781481578257 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
ISBN: 1481578251 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
Physical Description: electronic
access
remote
1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 52 min.)) : digital
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: [United States] : Blackstone Audio, Inc. : Made available through hoopla, 2011.

Content descriptions

Restrictions on Access Note:	Digital content provided by hoopla.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Frederick Davidson.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.