The Annotated H.G. Wells, 3 The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance: A Critical Text of the 1897 New York First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices

Wells, H. G.

ISBN 10: 0786404108 / ISBN 13: 9780786404100

Published by McFarland Publishing, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Annotated H.G. Wells, 3 The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance: A Critical Text of the 1897 New York First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices
• Publisher: McFarland Publishing
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786404108
• ISBN 13: 9780786404100
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

H.G. Wells barely revised The Invisible Man once it was published, adding only an epilogue. But the opening statement of that epilogue-"So ends the strange and evil experiment of the Invisible Man"-has posed challenges to scholars. How to understand it? Does it speak strictly to the scientific elements of the novel? Or is it a part of the work's political underpinnings? The 1897 New York first edition (the first edition to incorporate the epilogue) is used here as the basis for the exhaustive annotations and other critical apparatus of the world's foremost Wellsian scholar.

About the Author

Leon Stover, author of numerous works of literary criticism, is professor emeritus at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.