When the Sleeper Wakes

A Critical Text of the 1899 New York and London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices

By:

H.G.Wells

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

The Annotated H.G. Wells

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Critics view When the Sleeper Wakes as a prototype of the anti-utopian novel, a genre developed by Zamyatin, Huxley, and Orwell into nightmare futures associated with the totalitarian age and the moral horrors of fascism and communism. Annotated by the world’s leading Wellsian scholar, in Sleeper is found a greater measure of artistry and characterization than is usually accorded it. As a complex work combining technological with social speculation, Sleeper is unmatched for canniness in the history of futuristic literature. Indeed, its aeronautical details influenced the Wright Brothers in the design of their flyer, and the novel predicts the promotion of airplanes as a weapon, a prophecy dramatically fulfilled in the twentieth century. This exhaustive critical edition features a lengthy introduction, appendices, bibliography and index, and a frontispiece taken from the original 1899 edition.

Author Biography:

The late Leon Stover, professor emeritus at the Illinois Institute of Technology, was the first to bring science fiction to the college curriculum and was the author of numerous landmarks of intellectual history. He lived in Chicago.

Release date Australia

May 31st, 2012

Author

H.G.Wells

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

3 photographs, annotations

Pages

477

Series

The Annotated H.G. Wells

Dimensions

152x229x24

ISBN-13

9780786468737

Product ID

20397053

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