The Best of H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine & The Invisible Man. H. G. Wells

Age. Or did he go forward, into one of the nearer ages, in which men are still men, but with the riddles of our own time answered and its wearisome problems solved? Into the manhood of the race: for I, for my own part, cannot think that these latter days of weak experiment, fragmentary theory, and mutual discord are indeed man’s culminating time! I say, for my own part. He, I know—for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made—thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end. If that is so, it remains for us to live as though it were not so. But to me the future is still black and blank—is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story. And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man

      The Invisible Man

       Table of Contents

       Chapter 1 The Strange Man’s Arrival

       Chapter 2 Mr. Teddy Henfrey’s First Impressions

       Chapter 3 The Thousand and One Bottles

       Chapter 4 Mr. Cuss Interviews the Stranger

       Chapter 5 The Burglary at the Vicarage

       Chapter 6 The Furniture That Went Mad

       Chapter 7 The Unveiling of the Stranger

       Chapter 8 In Transit

       Chapter 9 Mr. Thomas Marvel

       Chapter 10 Mr. Marvel’s Visit To Iping

       Chapter 11 In the “Coach and Horses”

       Chapter 12 The Invisible Man Loses His Temper

       Chapter 13 Mr. Marvel Discusses His Resignation

       Chapter 14 At Port Stowe

       Chapter 15 The Man Who Was Running

       Chapter 16 In the “Jolly Cricketers”

       Chapter 17 Dr. Kemp’s Visitor

       Chapter 18 The Invisible Man Sleeps

       Chapter 19 Certain First Principles

       Chapter 20 At the House In Great Portland Street

       Chapter 21 In Oxford Street

       Chapter 22 In The Emporium

       Chapter 23 In Drury Lane

       Chapter 24 The Plan That Failed

       Chapter 25 The Hunting of the Invisible Man

       Chapter 26 The Wicksteed Murder

       Chapter 27 The Seige of Kemp’s House

       Chapter 28 The Hunter Hunted

       The Epilogue