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Violence
Some
Moderate; revolutionary violence and the conflict of a class uprising
Language
None
No strong language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Mild; the disorientation of waking into an alien world
What this book is about
H.G. Wells's 1899 science fiction novel imagines a man who falls into a catatonic sleep and wakes in the distant future — finding that compound interest has made him the nominal owner of most of the world, and that the society built in his name is not what was promised. An early dystopian novel with ideas that Wells himself revisited in later work.
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