
With an Introduction & Notes by Linda Dryden Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University & the author of Joseph Conrad & H G Wells The Fin-de Siecle-Literary Scene At the end of the nineteenth century a stranger arrives in the Sussex countryside & mayhem ensues; in the sleepy county of Kent a miracle food brings biological chaos that engulfs & threatens the entire planet H G Wells's fertile & mercurial imagination never brought us more bizarre & unsettling stories than those revealed in The Invisible Man (1897) & The Food of the Gods & How It Came to Earth (1904) These are stories of extraordinary physical transformations & are at once extremely funny & richly imaginative At the same time Wells poses some very probing questions about the ethical
Dimensions to science & the human capacity for both pity & cruelty Brought together for the first time in this new Wordsworth edition The Invisible Man & The Food of the Gods are two of Wells's most entertaining & thought-provoking works