![]() ![]() Lewisham, which had taken a very much stronger hold upon my affections than this present story. In addition to various necessary journalistic tasks, I had in hand another book, Love and Mr. I was at that time overworked, and badly in need of a holiday. Except for certain streaks of a slovenliness which seems to be an almost unavoidable defect in me, there is little to be ashamed of in the writing of the opening portion but it will be fairly manifest to the critic that instead of being put aside and thought over through a leisurely interlude, the ill-conceived latter part was pushed to its end. Like most of my earlier work, it was written under considerable pressure there are marks of haste not only in the writing of the latter part, but in the very construction of the story. It is one of the most ambitious and least satisfactory of my books, and I have taken the opportunity afforded by this reprinting to make a number of excisions and alterations. When The Sleeper Wakes, whose title I have now altered to The Sleeper Awakes, was first published as a book in 1899 after a serial appearance in the The Graphic and one or two American and colonial periodicals. ![]()
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