Not one to be worried about spoilers, HG Wells revised the project Gutenburg version I read, and included a preface briefly detailing the things he'd changed. Said revisions didn't include the ending, but he thought he'd tell us that anyway. Thanks HG.

Anyway, this is something of a mish-mash of quite posh sci-fi whimsy, and Orwellian dystopia, and quite an entertaining romp it is. Never for one moment are you really led to believe that there's any hope for the future of mankind, nor does the author really seem to believe in his own balance of good vs evil. On the evil side, you've got one self-serving aristocracy replacing another, while stamping a big jackboot down on the face of the common-man. On the good side, you've got Graham, a man who while asleep for 200 years has had the good fortune to have literally become the meek who inherits the earth. Wells clearly thought Graham would develop into some kind of socialist messiah, but then realises that a kind of lucky bumbling nice-guy with no real skills would be just as poor a basis for a system of government as a aristocratic tyranny. And therefore runs out of steam, and has him pissing about with remarkably unfuturistic airplanes for the last few pages.

Good fun, but in that candid preface, Wells admits that he didn't really know what to do with it, and it was a rush job. First half, excellent; second half, try and piece together a more convincing plot yourself.