Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Marianne North, J. M. W. Turner and John Constable. A stranger in bandages and blue goggles takes a room at a village inn in Sussex and will not be asked questions. Wells worked out the physics first - what invisibility would actually cost a man, starting with the fact that he must go naked and cannot shut his eyes - and then let the character rot from there. He wrote it in a few months, at thirty. Fifty-five plates of village fairs, moonlit harbours and winter coasts by Constable and Munch run alongside the tale, matching its quiet English setting and its long dark.