When the Sleeper Wakes

ISBN-13: 9781554813520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 294 str.

H. G. Wells; John Sutherland

Opis

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.

Spis treści

• 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