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The Invisible Man

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BookThe Invisible Man
EditorNicole Lobdell, Nancee Reeves
Publisher SeriesBroadview Editions
Series EditorMartin R. Boyne
PublisherBroadview Press
AdvisorDenis Johnston
Cover Art byDain L. Tasker
Formate-Book
LanguageEnglish
LocationPeterborough, Ontario, Canada
Copyright2018
This Edition Published2018-06-30
ISBN 139781770486775
ChaptersAcknowledgements 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 1. From James Dalton, The Invisible Gentleman (1833) 2. From Fitz-James O’Brien, “What Was It? A Mystery,” Harper’s Magazine (March 1859) 3. W.S. Gilbert, “The Perils of Invisibility” (1869) 4. From Edward Page Mitchell, “The Crystal Man,” Sun (30 January 1881) 5. From Charles H. Hinton, “Stella” (1895) 6. From Katherine Kip, “My Invisible Friend,” Black Cat (February 1897) Appendix C: Reviews of The Invisible Man 1. From “Mr. Wells’s New Stories,” Saturday Review (18 September 1897) 2. From Arnold Bennett, Woman (29 September 1897) 3. Letter from H.G. Wells replying to Arnold Bennett (October 1897) 4. From Clement Shorter, Bookman [London] (October 1897) 5. From Claudius Clear, Bookman [New York] (November 1897) 6. “H.G. Wells’s ‘The Invisible Man,’” New York Times (25 December 1897) Appendix D: Wells and Friends on The Invisible Man 1. Extract from letter, H.G. Wells to James B. Pinker (received 16 April 1896) 2. Extract from letter, H.G. Wells to James B. Pinker (November 1896 [?]) 3. H.G. Wells to James B. Pinker (2 May 1897) 4. Extract from letter, Joseph Conrad to H.G. Wells (4 December 1898) Appendix E: Biological Context 1. From J. Lockhart Gerson, “On the ‘Invisible Blood Corpuscles’ of Norris” (1882) 2. From W. Robinson, “Notes on Some Albino Birds” (1889) 3. From H.G. Wells, “Popular Feeling and the Advancement of Science. Anti-Vivisection” (1928) Appendix F: Technological Context: Röntgen Rays and Radio Waves 1. From Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, “On a New Kind of Rays,” Nature (23 January 1896) 2. From H.J.W. Dam, “A Wizard of To-Day,” Pearson’s Magazine (April 1896) 3. From George Griffith, “A Photograph of the Invisible,” Pearson’s Magazine (April 1896) 4. From H.J.W. Dam, “The New Telegraphy,” Strand Magazine (March 1897) Appendix G: Wells on Class and Society 1. From Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought (1901) 2. From A Modern Utopia (1905) 3. From “Of the New Reign” (1914) 4. From Experiment in Autobiography (1934) Select Filmography Works Cited and Select Bibliography
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