Chapter XIII: Preface: To the New Edition

THE SLEEPER AWAKES

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 MONOPLANE

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. — GRAHAM SPEAKS HIS WORD

CHAPTER XXIV. — WHILE THE AEROPLANES WERE COMING

CHAPTER XXV. — THE COMING OF THE AEROPLANES

THE STOLEN BACILLUS AND OTHER INCIDENTS By H.G. Wells 1895

CONTENTS

THE STOLEN BACILLUS

THE FLOWERING OF THE STRANGE ORCHID

IN THE AVU OBSERVATORY

THE TRIUMPHS OF A TAXIDERMIST

A DEAL IN OSTRICHES

THROUGH A WINDOW

THE TEMPTATION OF HARRINGAY

THE FLYING MAN

THE DIAMOND MAKER

AEPYORNIS ISLAND

THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVIDSON’S EYES

THE LORD OF THE DYNAMOS

THE HAMMERPOND PARK BURGLARY

A MOTH—GENUS NOVO

THE TREASURE IN THE FOREST

MR. BRITLING SEES IT THROUGH By H. G. Wells 1916 CONTENTS

BOOK I — MATCHING'S EASY AT EASE
MR. DIRECK VISITS MR. BRITLING
MR. BRITLING CONTINUES HIS EXPOSITION
THE ENTERTAINMENT OF MR. DIRECK REACHES A CLIMAX
MR. BRITLING IN SOLILOQUY
THE COMING OF THE DAY

BOOK II — MATCHING'S EASY AT WAR
ONLOOKERS
TAKING PART
MALIGNITY
IN THE WEB OF THE INEFFECTIVE

BOOK III — THE TESTAMENT OF MATCHING'S EASY
MRS. TEDDY GOES FOR A WALK
MR. BRITLING WRITES UNTIL SUNRISE

NOCTURNE By Frank Swinnerton 1917

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION BY H.G. WELLS