With an Introduction and Notes by Linda Dryden, Professor of English Literature
at Edinburgh Napier University and the author of Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells:
The Fin-de Siecle-Literary Scene.At the end of the nineteenth century a stranger
arrives in the Sussex countryside and mayhem ensues; in the sleepy county of
Kent a miracle food brings biological chaos that engulfs and threatens the
entire planet. H. G. Wells's fertile and mercurial imagination never brought us
more bizarre and unsettling stories than those revealed in The Invisible Man
(1897) and The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (1904). These are
stories of extraordinary