Sarnac, a scientist of a far happier future age, takes a mountain holiday after overwork and falls into a dream in which he lives an entire life as Harry Mortimer Smith, born into a struggling shopkeeping family in late-Victorian Kent. Telling his friends the story on waking, he recounts Harry’s boyhood, his move to London, love, marriage in wartime and loss.
A late Wells novel that turns his utopian vision into a searching critique of the society he grew up in. Download the free EPUB.