The invisible man
Subtitle: a grotesque romance : a critical text of the 1897 New York first edition, with an introduction and appendices
By: H.G. Wells ; edited by Leon Stover.
Contributors: Stover, Leon E.
Series: The annotated H.G. Wells ;; 3
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Scientists -- Fiction; Mentally ill -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-235) and index.