The Invisible Man

A Grotesque Romance : a Critical Text of the 1897 New York First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices

By Herbert George Wells

Rating: / 5 | Language: en

Overview

A teacher of Wells, Stover (emeritus, anthropology, Illinois Institute of Technology) explicates one of Wells' scientific romances--a genre that a 19th-century critic called "a condition of England novel" reflecting the growing social unrest of the middle-class. The editor introduces the text as science fiction and as a "dialectic of human destiny," discusses the cryptic epilogue first included in this edition ("So ends the strange and evil experiment of the Invisible Man"), and appends early reviews and other relevant commentary. c. Book News Inc.