The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau

Two Scientific Romances

H. G. Wells

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785486396151
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Two of Wells's early novels about what science does to the man who practises it. Griffin, in The Invisible Man (1897), arrives bandaged at a Sussex inn and cannot make himself seen again; Moreau, on his island (1896), cuts animals into the shapes of men and teaches them the Law. Both books are about the same thing — knowledge without anyone to answer to — and both end badly for the knower. Ninety-nine plates, from Constable's cloud studies to Munch's coastal landscapes, run alongside these tales of men who overreach and vanish.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Chapter I. The Strange Man’s Arrival
• Chapter II. Mr. Teddy Henfrey’s First Impressions
• Chapter III. The Thousand and One Bottles
• Chapter IV. Mr. Cuss Interviews the Stranger
• Chapter V. The Burglary at the Vicarage
• Chapter VI. The Furniture That Went Mad
• Chapter VII. The Unveiling of the Stranger
• Chapter VIII. In Transit
• Chapter IX. Mr. Thomas Marvel
• Chapter X. Mr. Marvel’s Visit to Iping
• Chapter XI. In the “Coach and Horses”
• Chapter XII. The Invisible Man Loses His Temper
• Chapter XIII. Mr. Marvel Discusses His Resignation
• Chapter XIV. At Port Stowe
• Chapter XV. The Man Who Was Running
• Chapter XVI. In the “Jolly Cricketers”
• Chapter XVII. Dr. Kemp’s Visitor
• Chapter XVIII. The Invisible Man Sleeps
• Chapter XIX. Certain First Principles
• Chapter XX. At the House in Great Portland Street
• Chapter XXI. In Oxford Street
• Chapter XXII. In the Emporium
• Chapter XXIII. In Drury Lane
• Chapter XXIV. The Plan That Failed
• Chapter XXV. The Hunting of the Invisible Man
• Chapter XXVI. The Wicksteed Murder
• Chapter XXVII. The Siege of Kemp’s House
• Chapter XXVIII. The Hunter Hunted
• The Epilogue
• Introduction
• I. In the Dinghy of the “Lady Vain.”
• II. The Man Who Was Going Nowhere
• III. The Strange Face
• IV. At the Schooner’s Rail
• V. The Man Who Had Nowhere to Go
• VI. The Evil-Looking Boatmen
• VII. The Locked Door
• VIII. The Crying of the Puma
• IX. The Thing in the Forest
• X. The Crying of the Man
• XI. The Hunting of the Man
• XII. The Sayers of the Law
• XIII. A Parley
• XIV. Doctor Moreau Explains
• XV. Concerning the Beast Folk
• XVI. How the Beast Folk Taste Blood
• XVII. A Catastrophe
• XVIII. The Finding of Moreau
• XIX. Montgomery’s “Bank Holiday.”
• XX. Alone with the Beast Folk
• XXI. The Reversion of the Beast Folk
• XXII. The Man Alone
• About the Author