![]() Confused and afraid, Graham teams up with a group of Rebels who help him escape his imprisonment in exchange for joining the revolutionaries in taking down the White Council. However, the White Council doesnt want Graham to take back his power now that hes awake. Instead, Graham is placed on house arrest, where he suddenly learns that he is the owner and leader of the world. The White Council didnt expect Graham to wake up, and word spreads like wildfire that the Sleeper has awakened, and people begin to demand to see him. While hes been asleep, much of the world has changed, including the formation of the White Council who uses the fortune that Graham inherited to establish a new political and economic world order. A Londoner named Graham takes insomnia-curing drugs on a night in 1897, but when he wakes up, hes living in 2100. Book Synopsis Futuristic, nightmarish, and riveting from start to finish, When the Sleeper Wakes is a dystopian tale by science fiction pioneer H. Wells When the Sleeper Wakes tells the story of Graham, an insomniac who takes a sleeping drug and doesnt wake for another two hundred years, only to find that the world has changed into a horrific nightmare. ![]()
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