The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes

** "The Sleeper Awakes" by H.G. Wells is a science fiction story about Graham, who enters a deep sleep and wakes up two hundred years later in a future world completely unlike his own, full of new technology and different social structures. The story begins with Mr. Isbister, a young artist meeting a troubled man named Graham, who can’t sleep and is struggling with his purpose in life, even contemplating ending it all; their conversations show Graham's deep unhappiness and sets the scene for his eventual long sleep. Graham's eventual rude awakening throws him into a confusing and dangerous world where he has to deal with the shock of being gone for so long and also navigate the political problems of this new future. **