WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES

By H. G. Wells

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. INSOMNIA

CHAPTER II. THE TRANCE

CHAPTER III. THE AWAKENING

CHAPTER IV. THE SOUND OF A TUMULT

CHAPTER V. THE MOVING WAYS

CHAPTER VI. THE HALL OF THE ATLAS

CHAPTER VII. IN THE SILENT ROOMS

CHAPTER VIII. THE ROOF SPACES

CHAPTER IX. THE PEOPLE MARCH

CHAPTER X. THE BATTLE OF THE DARKNESS

CHAPTER XI. THE OLD MAN WHO KNEW EVERYTHING

CHAPTER XII. OSTROG

CHAPTER XIII. THE END OF THE OLD ORDER

CHAPTER XIV. FROM THE CROW’S NEST

CHAPTER XV. PROMINENT PEOPLE

CHAPTER XVI. THE AEROPHILE

CHAPTER XVII. THREE DAYS

CHAPTER XVIII. GRAHAM REMEMBERS

CHAPTER XIX. OSTROG’S POINT OF VIEW

CHAPTER XX. IN THE CITY WAYS

CHAPTER XXI. THE UNDER SIDE

CHAPTER XXII. THE STRUGGLE IN THE COUNCIL HOUSE

CHAPTER XXIII. WHILE THE AEROPLANES WERE COMING

CHAPTER XXIV. THE COMING OF THE AEROPLANES

CHAPTER I. INSOMNIA

One afternoon, at low water, Mr. Isbister, a young artist lodging at Boscastle, walked from that place to the picturesque cove of Pentargen, desiring to examine the caves there. Halfway down the precipitous path to the Pentargen beach he came suddenly upon a man sitting in an attitude of profound distress beneath a projecting mass of rock. The hands of this man hung limply over his knees, his eyes were red and staring before him, and his face was wet with tears.

He glanced round at Isbister’s footfall. Both men were disconcerted, Isbister the more so, and, to override the awkwardness of his involuntary pause, he remarked, with an air of mature conviction, that the weather was hot for the time of year.