The Dream (Annotated)

The Dream is one of H. G. Wells's later speculative fictions, a utopian frame narrative in which a citizen of a distant, saner future dreams an entire life as Harry Mortimer Smith, a man of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through this double vision, Wells anatomizes the cruelties of class, property, sexual convention, and war. Its style blends social realism, philosophical romance, a...