Project Gutenberg #775
When the Sleeper Wakes
H. G. Wells
1899Wells's technological dystopia about a sleeper awakening in the future, prepared chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg HTML.
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he wakes. If ever a waking comes.”
“I’d give anything to be there,” said Isbister, “just to hear what he would say to it all.”
“So would I,” said Warming. “Aye! so would I,” with an old man’s sudden turn to self pity. “But I shall never see him wake.”
He stood looking thoughtfully at the waxen figure. “He will never wake,” he said at last. He sighed “He will never wake again.”