The Sleeper Awakes
by H. G. Wells
England, which had restless insomnia in the 1890s, suddenly enters a sleepy trance from which it has not woken up for more than two hundred years. However, in centuries of sleep, investments have been made that have made him the richest and most powerful person in the world. But when he emerges from his trance, he sees with horror that the money accumulated in his name is being used to support a hierarchical society in which most of the poor and more than a third of all people are enslaved. The oppressed and uneducated masses are desperately clinging to a single dream – that the sleeper will wake up and lead them all to freedom.
