Footprints without Feet- H.G. wells

       H. G. Wells ( born September 21, 1866, 

Bromley, Kent, England—died August 13, 1946 London)

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow"

Herbert George Wells was a prolific writer who wrote in many geners but in the world he is famous for his science fiction novels like, The time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The island of Doctor Moreau, The First Men in the Moon. 

Wells was nominated four times for the Nobel prize but won none.

His works reveal that he was truly futurist and visionary. Wells had foreseen the development of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons etc. In the beginning of the century he had foreseen the world figure quite clearly. In his novel of 1913-1914 The World Set Free, he imagined an “atomic bomb” of terrifying power that would be dropped from aeroplanes. And in 1945 the same event occurred when American army dropped two atom bombs in the two cities of Japan

He is now regarded as the father of science fiction along with Jules Verne.

Footprints without Feet

Two boys notices footprints of fresh mud imprinted on straps but they do not find any person, suddenly they see another marks of footprints on the steps getting printed from nowhere. They start following the footprints until they stop getting printed anymore.

Actually These footprints are made by Griffin who has discovered formula of making thing invisible and makes himself transparent. After becoming invisible he sets fire to the lardlord' s house and comes into the street of London. It is midwinter and he starts facing disadvantages of his new found invisibility. The biting cold becomes unbearable for him and he wants clothes desperately. He waits outside a big store of London and when the store is about to be closed for the day, he enters there. He gets foods and clothes there and spent night with sound sleep in the cozy surroundings of the store but he doesn't get up early so he is noticed by assistants of the store and to escape from there he removes all his clothes. Once again he is naked in the cold winter of London. From there he goes to Drury lane and robs a shop of theatrical goods. He has now become a presentable person and goes to iping where he takes a room in an inn. The village inn keeper finding it her good luck gives him room without knowing much of him. Very soon his presence in the inn becomes a nuisance in the village. His behaviour towards the village people irritate them. slowly they become suspicious about him and one morning when the innkeeper couple, finding the door of room ajar, enters in the room, they find no person there but suddenly the furniture of the room springs up in the air and leap to them. Horrified with this they decide to throw out the Man. Mr Hall goes to get the help of the police.

Before this strange case of springing of the furniture in the stranger's room, early morning the village clergymen is robbed by the unseen person. 

Linking these two events the villagers think the stranger knows witchcraft and possesses sprit with him.

Meanwhile when Mrs Hall, the innkeeper demands explanation of his absence from the room and again coming out of closed doors, the stranger lost his temper and removes his covering above his shoulder, there appears a headless man.

When the constable comes with the warrant to arrest him, he is also surprised to see the headless man. Then begin struggle between constable and the stranger; and the stranger by removing all his clothes becomes invisible again. 

And nobody knows where the invisible Man gone...