The Illustrated Sleeper Awakes

A nice edition with 15 illustrations from the first edition of When the Sleeper Wakes which was rewritten by Wells and released as The Sleeper Awakes. The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian science fiction novel by English writer H. G. Wells, about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London in which he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realized, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. The novel is a rewritten version of When the Sleeper Wakes, a story by Wells that was serialized between 1898 and 1899.