The Sleeper Awakes [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Wells, H. G.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0141441062 ISBN 13: 9780141441061

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2006

Riassunto

A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. Oppressed and uneducated, the masses cling desperately to one dream - that the sleeper will awake, and lead them all to freedom.

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L'autore:

H. G. Wells was a professional writer and journalist, who published more than a hundred books, including novels, histories, essays and programmes for world regeneration. Wells's prophetic imagination was first displayed in pioneering works of science fiction, but later he became an apostle of socialism, science and progress. His controversial views on sexual equality and the shape of a truly developed nation remain directly relevant to our world today. He was, in Bertrand Russell's words, 'an important liberator of thought and action'.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0141441062
• ISBN 13: 9780141441061
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Redattore: Parrinder Patrick, Sawyer Andy