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PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY
THE INVISIBLE MAN
In the space of less than four years, H. G. Wells (1866–1946) published four of the most influential, original and hair-raising of all works of science fiction. In a life of tireless experiment, travelling and intellectual engagement, Wells was both a leading public figure and one of the great imaginers of the modern world.
Wells’s other science-fiction classics The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau and The War of the Worlds are also published in the Penguin English Library.
The Invisible Man
by J. R. Hammond
It is perhaps difficult for a twentieth-century reader to recapture the sense of excitement which must have been experienced by those who read The Invisible Man for the first time on its publication as a serial in Pearson’s Weekly in the summer of 1897 and as a book in the autumn of that year. To a contemporary reader, encountering Wells’s works in the order of their publication, it must have been immediately apparent that here was a work of unusual imaginative power. For The Invisible Man is a much more assured piece of storytelling than either The Wonderful Visit (1895) or The Wheels of Chance (1896), and marks a considerable advance in narrative skill. One has only to consider the opening paragraph to recognise at once the hand of a literary artist thoroughly acquainted with his medium:
‘The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking as it seemed from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried. He staggered into the Coach and Horses, more dead than alive as it seemed, and flung his portmanteau down.’
To compare these introductory sentences – so circumstantial and realistic – with the openings of his previous full-length fictions, even including The Time Machine, is to appreciate afresh Wells’s deftness as a writer and to understand why his friends George Gissing and Arnold Bennett praised the book so highly.
Almost all the early romances are set in a specific and identifiable locality. The Time Machine, for example, albeit describing events which occur in the remote future, is set in and around Richmond and throu ............

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