{"product_id":"the-sleeper-awakes-isbn-9780141441061","title":"The Sleeper Awakes","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fascinating and prescient account of a future dominated by capitalist greed and mechanical force\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cb\u003eH.G. Wells\u003c\/b\u003e 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'. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Patrick Parrinder\u003c\/b\u003e has written on H.G. Wells, science fiction, James Joyce and the history of the English novel. Since 1986 he has been Professor of English at the University of Reading. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Andy Sawyer\u003c\/b\u003e is a Librarian at the University of Sheffield with a particular interest in science fiction.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301772054757,"sku":"NP9780141441061","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780141441061.jpg?v=1767741544","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-sleeper-awakes-isbn-9780141441061","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}