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When the Sleeper Wakes de H. G. Wells

When the Sleeper Wakes

Autor H. G. Wells
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2013
When the Sleeper Wakes is the story of a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest on his bank accounts, he has become the richest man in the world. A fanatic socialist and author of prophetic writings, the main character sees his dreams realized and the future revealed in all its horror.When the Sleeper Wakes was first serialized between 1898 and 1899 and rereleased as The Sleeper Awakes in 1910.Herbert George "H. G." Wells was an English writer best known for his work in science fiction. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. His most notable science fiction works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781483702988
ISBN-10: 1483702987
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 191 x 235 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bottom of the Hill Publishing

Descriere

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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. Historical appendices include contemporary reviews, Henri Lanos illustrations from The Graphic, and other utopian fiction from the period.

Recenzii

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. Historical appendices include contemporary reviews, Henri Lanos illustrations from The Graphic, and other utopian fiction from the period.

“In his masterly introduction to H.G. Wells’s 1899 novel When the Sleeper Wakes, John Sutherland amply demonstrates its enduring relevance to the contemporary reader, even though it is one of Wells’s lesser-known works. Sutherland’s assessment of the novel is not only extraordinarily erudite and informative but also witty and immensely readable. He provides a lively biography of Wells alongside an appraisal of the novel that is brim-full of fascinating contextual detail and penetrating critical observations. The appendices offer an invaluable historical background to the novel’s inspiration, reception, and film adaptations, as well as reproductions of the fabulous illustrations accompanying the serialization in The Graphic. The two Prefaces and the “Afterword” give us a unique personal glimpse into the development of Wells’s ideas and his writing processes. For any fan or scholar of Wells, this is a much-needed, exemplary revisiting of his tale of time travel.” — Linda Dryden, Edinburgh Napier University
“John Sutherland has produced a knowledgeable, classroom-friendly edition of one of the lesser-known masterpieces of Wells’s scientific fantasies. When the Sleeper Wakes brims with some of Wells’s most prophetic technological inventions and radical political ideas, all of which are expertly discussed and contextualized in Sutherland’s introduction, notes, and appendices.” — Jeremy Withers, Iowa State University
“… this novel deserves to be studied by a larger audience, and John Sutherland is well suited to the task of helping to bring When the Sleeper Wakes to more readers. … this is another commendable volume by Broadview Press. This Canadian publisher continues to produce high-quality, classroom-friendly, affordable editions of many literary works, and their roster of texts by H. G. Wells is now up to half a dozen titles. … One can only hope that we continue to see more Wells volumes published by this press.” — Jeremy Withers, The Wellsian

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
H.G. Wells: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
When the Sleeper Wakes
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
Works Cited and Select Bibliography

Notă biografică

Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946)-known as H. G. Wells-was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics and social commentary, as well as textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897) and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.