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When the Sleeper Wakes
By H. G. Wells and Frederick Davidson (narrator)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc
Publication date August 1, 1999
Binding Cassette/Spoken Word
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780786116096
ISBN-10 0786116099
Dimensions 1.25 by 7.25 by 10 in.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $49.95
Other format details audio
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.]

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.

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 is revered as a leader, with a council that dictates to the world in his name.

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