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Traditional
Source: Open Library
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British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Classic Literature
Dystonia
Dystopia
Dystopian fiction
Dystopias
Dystopias in literature
Dystopie
Dystopier i litteraturen
Dystopies
Dystopies -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Dystopies -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
Dystopies dans la littérature
English literature
FICTION / Dystopian
Fiction
Fiction, dystopian
Fiction, fantasy, general
Fiction, science fiction, general
Literature
Littérature
Littérature anglaise
Littérature classique
Science fiction
Sience-Fiction Dystopie
Technological innovations
Time Travel
Twenty-first century
Twenty-second century
Voyages dans le temps
Young adult fiction, dystopian
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English
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Release Year
1899
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Synopsis
A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. Oppressed and uneducated, the masses cling desperately to one dream – that the sleeper will awake, and lead them all to freedom.
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