A Dream of Armageddon

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

H. G. Wells’s *A Dream of Armageddon* is a dark, visionary tale in which a man recounts a series of extraordinarily vivid dreams that seem to place him in the body and life of another man living in a future civilization on the brink of catastrophic war. In this dream-world, he has abandoned political power in order to live peacefully with a woman he loves on the island of Capri, yet the consequences of his former public life gradually draw him back toward conflict. As war spreads and modern technology turns civilization into a landscape of destruction, the dream becomes increasingly real, blurring the boundary between prophecy, memory, and nightmare. Wells uses the story to examine the destructive power of ambition, militarism, and political responsibility, while contrasting private love and human happiness with the machinery of mass violence. The result is a tragic meditation on fate, war, and the possibility that humanity’s technological progress may outstrip its moral wisdom.