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When the Sleeper Wakes

H. G. Wells · 1899

A novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1899, about a sleepless, despairing stranger whom a young artist encounters on the Cornish coast, opening with the man's worsening insomnia, drug use, and spiral toward mental collapse.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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