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When the Sleeper Wakes. A Critical Text of the 1899 New York and London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices H.G. Wells.(Review)

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From: Utopian Studies
Date: 20010101
Author:Gallardo-Torrano, Pere

H.G. Wells. When the Sleeper Wakes. A Critical Text of the 1899 New York and London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices H.G. Wells. Ed. Leon Stover. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2000. xi + 465 pp. $55.00.

IN THE PREFACE to this edition of Wells's 1899 classic Stover contends that "the question raised by Sleeper then must be: does its world of AD 2100 project a desirable future, or does it warn of doom-laden troubles ahead? Is it utopian or dystopian" (ix). Despite his impressive introduction, however, one has the feeling that in the end it is left to the ...

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