The Sleeper Awakes: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Sleeper Awakes, credited to H.G. Wells, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Sleeper Awakes, by H.G. Wells. The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest, he has become the richest man in the world. He has been the famous Sleeper for centuries. A fanatic socialist, the main character awakes to see his nightmares realized, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. The people adore him, and their masters - the supervisors of his legacy who rule in his name - do not want him breathing. (Summary by Stephan and Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Sleeper Awakes
• Author credits: H.G. Wells
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 8:14:09

Catalogue topics

• wells
• sci-fi
• dystopia

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 00 - Preface — 4:02
2. 01 - Insomnia — 17:31
3. 02 - The Trance — 15:55
4. 03 - The Awakening — 11:44
5. 04 - The Sound of a Tumult — 30:17
6. 05 - The Moving Ways — 10:49
7. 06 - The Hall of the Atlas — 17:09
8. 07 - In the Silent Rooms — 20:45
9. 08 - The Roof Spaces — 25:55
10. 09 - The People March — 13:26
11. 10 - The Battle of the Darkness — 23:04
12. 11 - The Old Man Who Knew Everything — 27:20
13. 12 - Ostrog — 29:30
14. 13 - The End of the Old Order — 9:31
15. 14 - From the Crow's Nest — 14:38
16. 15 - Prominent People — 26:30
17. 16 - The Monoplane — 25:44
18. 17 - Three Days — 14:27
19. 18 - Graham Remembers — 22:03
20. 19 - Ostrog's Point of View — 18:03
21. 20 - In the City Ways — 37:02
22. 21 - The Under-side — 14:24
23. 22 - The Struggle in the Council House — 25:15
24. 23 - Graham Speaks His Word — 9:22

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