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Informationen zum Autor Herbert George Wells was an influential English writer, best known for his works in science fiction, though his prolific output spanned various genres, including history, social commentary, politics, and autobiography. Born on September 21, 1866, in Bromley, London, Wells attended the Normal School of Science in London, where he studied biology under Thomas Henry Huxley. Wells initially worked as a teacher and journalist before turning to writing full time. Over his career, he penned more than fifty novels, along with numerous short stories and non-fiction works. His early works, such as "The Time Machine," "The War of the Worlds," and "The Invisible Man," helped establish him as one of the pioneers of modern science fiction. He also explored themes of social justice, the possibilities of science and technology, and the complexities of human nature in works like "The History of Mr. Polly" and "The Shape of Things to Come." Throughout his life, Wells engaged in political and philosophical discourse, influenced by thinkers like Mark Twain and Plato. He died on August 13, 1946, in London, leaving behind a legacy that shaped the development of speculative fiction and continued to inspire future generations of writers and thinkers. Klappentext 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. The introduction examines in great detail the novel's position in the Wellsian canon and sets the major themes in context with the literary conventions used in his other works, particularly the scientific romances. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. The Text 2. Science Fiction 3. Socialism 4. "Dialectic of Human Destiny" 5. Invisibility 6. "The Cramped Village" 7. Laboratory Ethics 8. "Holy Terror" The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance (1897) (Annotated text of the first New York edition) AppendicesI. Review of The Invisible Man in The Spectator (1897) II. Review of The Invisible Man by Arnold Bennett (1897) III. Sergei Nechaev, "The Revolutionary Catechism" (1869), Section 1 IV. T.H. Huxley, "Science and Culture" (1880), Excerpt V. Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, "The Sphinx" (1843) Bibliography Index ...
