Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction H.G. Wells: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
The Invisible Man
Appendix A: The Four Endings of The Invisible Man
Appendix B: Invisibility in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
- From James Dalton, The Invisible Gentleman (1833)
- From Fitz-James O’Brien, “What Was It? A Mystery,” Harper’s Magazine (March 1859)
- W.S. Gilbert, “The Perils of Invisibility” (1869)
- From Edward Page Mitchell, “The Crystal Man,” Sun (30 January 1881)
- From Charles H. Hinton, “Stella” (1895)
- From Katherine Kip, “My Invisible Friend,” Black Cat (February 1897)
Appendix C: Reviews of
The Invisible Man - From “Mr. Wells’s New Stories,” Saturday Review (18 September 1897)
- From Arnold Bennett, Woman (29 September 1897)
- Letter from H.G. Wells replying to Arnold Bennett (October 1897)
- From Clement Shorter, Bookman [London] (October 1897)
- From Claudius Clear, Bookman [New York] (November 1897)
- “H.G. Wells’s ‘The Invisible Man,’” New York Times (25 December 1897)
Appendix D: Wells and Friends on
The Invisible Man - Extract from letter, H.G. Wells to James B. Pinker (received 16 April 1896)
- Extract from letter, H.G. Wells to James B. Pinker (November 1896 [?])
- H.G. Wells to James B. Pinker (2 May 1897)
- Extract from letter, Joseph Conrad to H.G. Wells (4 December 1898)
Appendix E: Biological Context
- From J. Lockhart Gerson, “On the ‘Invisible Blood Corpuscles’ of Norris” (1882)
- From W. Robinson, “Notes on Some Albino Birds” (1889)
- From H.G. Wells, “Popular Feeling and the Advancement of Science. Anti-Vivisection” (1928)
Appendix F: Technological Context: Röntgen Rays and Radio Waves
- From Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, “On a New Kind of Rays,” Nature (23 January 1896)
- From H.J.W. Dam, “A Wizard of To-Day,” Pearson’s Magazine (April 1896)
- From George Griffith, “A Photograph of the Invisible,” Pearson’s Magazine (April 1896)
- From H.J.W. Dam, “The New Telegraphy,” Strand Magazine (March 1897)
Appendix G: Wells on Class and Society
- From Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought (1901)
- From A Modern Utopia (1905)
- From “Of the New Reign” (1914)
- From Experiment in Autobiography (1934)
Select Filmography Works Cited and Select Bibliography