London, 1898. The Victorian Era draws to a close and the twentieth centuryapproaches. It is a time of great change and an age of stagnation, a period ofchaste order and ignoble chaos.
It is an era in need of champions. In thisamazingly imaginative tale, literary figures from throughout time and variousbodies of work are brought together to face any and all threats to Britain. Allan Quatermain, Mina Murray, Captain Nemo, Dr.
Henry Jekyll and Edward Hydeand Hawley Griffin, the Invisible Man, form a remarkable legion of intellectualaptitude and physical prowess: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
