Au XIXe siècle, par un après-midi ensoleillé, Isbister se promène sur le sentier qui domine les falaises de Pentargen. Il y fait alors une rencontre pour le moins étrange. Graham, épuisé et insomniaque, est assis sur une pierre le regard dans le vague.
Ne sachant que penser sur les intentions de l’homme qui lui tient des propos quelque peu incohérents, Isbister le convainc de venir se reposer dans son appartement, persuadé que l’homme y trouvera le sommeil tant recherché. Quelle n’est pas sa surprise lorsque le médecin, appelé en urgence, diagnostique une profonde catalepsie.
Il ne se réveille que 203 ans plus tard, dans un monde qui a bien changé et dont il est propriétaire pour moitié. Le Conseil, qui gère ses richesses, a instauré en son nom une puissante dictature. Mais, en son nom, est aussi prêchée la révolution du peuple…
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Born in 1866 in Bromley, England, to a poor family, Herbert George Wells began as an apprentice at the age of 14, but educated himself on his own, received a scholarship (1884), and specialized in biology at the University of London, from which he graduated in 1888.
Having become a teacher, but still without money, he will ask journalism for additional resources.
His first book is a work of biology, his second a novel: La Machine à explorer le temps (1895), which was an immediate success.
One of the pioneers, with Jules Verne, of the novel of anticipation, Wells is also a polemist, believing in progress through science.
These trends are reflected throughout a work that includes nearly 50 novels, tales, short stories and essays.
H. G. Wells died in London on August 13, 1946.
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