A man who sleeps for two hundred years wakes up in a completely transformed London. No one believed he is ever to wake up. The famous Sleeper for centuries, he became the richest man in the world, the owner of all industry, the press and landed estate; and being a fanatic socialist, sees his nightmares realized - the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. The world has changed so much, however love and treachery, friendship, betrayal and faithfulness are still side by side with wonderful technological miracles and strife for power. And now he is to decide, what happens with this world further. A novel by Herbert George Wells, a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, who produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary.