The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance / The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

Overview:

  • Title: The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance / The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
  • Author: H. G. Wells
  • Year: 2017
  • ISBN-10: 9781840227413
  • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
  • Price: £2.50
  • Pages: 352
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Omnibus
  • Title Reference: The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
  • Notes:
    Dated 1st printing of this 2017 edition. Title page:
    • "The Invisible Man [over] A Grotesque Romance [over] The Food of the Gods [over] and How It Came to Earth"
    • "H. G. Wells [over] with an Introduction and Notes by [over] Linda Dryden"
    • Wordsworth colophon [over] "Wordsworth Classics".
    Copyright page:
    • "First published in 2017 by Wordsworth Editions Limited [over] 8B East Street, Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 9HJ"
    • "ISBN 978 1 84022 741 3"
    • "Text © Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2017"
    • "Introduction © Linda Dryden, 2017"
    • "Printed and bound by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc"
    • No number line.
    Back cover:
    • "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."
    • "Cover Design by Robert Mathias"
    • "Cover Illustration: Carolyn Arcabascio"
    • "ISBN 978-1-84022-741-3"
    • No price.
    Month/day from Amazon UK as of 2024/03/05. See 'The Bookseller' pricing note here. "The Invisible Man & The Food of the Gods" appears on the front cover, spine, and back cover, but not on the title page. First numbered page is 8. The Biography is signed on page 9 "Simon J. James [over] Professor of English Literature at Durham University [over] and author of Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, [over] Modernity and the End of Culture". Introduction is signed page 25 "Linda Dryden [over] Edinburgh Napier University" and is followed by "Further Reading". The latter is uncredited but was likely compiled by Dryden. Pages 33 and 163 are the starts of the bodies of the works, given as pages 27 and 155 in the ToC. The novels are each preceded by their own ToC. Chapter 5 "The Burglary at the Vicarage" starts page 51, given as page 29 in ToC. First novel ends page 154. Second novel ends page 349. Pages 350 and 351 are unnumbered. Cover: gloss image on semi-gloss ground.