H G Wells

When the Sleeper Wakes H G Wells

The story line is time-worn: a young man - 30-years old - falls into a trance in Victorian England. He awakes two-hundred-three years later and discovers that he owns half the world through the miracle of compound interest on his investments. He is known as "The Sleeper," and is worshiped as a saviour by the masses. Graham, the Sleeper, meets the man who has been ruling the world in his name for many years - Ostrog. Turns out that Ostrog is just another power hungry man fronting for the Sleeper while aggrandizing himself