The Invisible Man

Wells, H. G.

ISBN 10: 1512091979 / ISBN 13: 9781512091977

Editore: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2020

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G1512091979I4N00

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“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.” ― H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells published in 1897. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it absorbs and reflects no light and thus becomes invisible.

He carries out this procedure on himself and renders himself invisible, but fails in his attempt to reverse it. A practitioner of random and irresponsible violence, Griffin has become an iconic character in horror fiction.

While its predecessors, The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau, were written using first-person narrators, Wells adopts a third-person objective point of view in The Invisible Man. The novel is considered influential, and helped establish Wells as the "father of science fiction".

A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!

From the Publisher: This work is part of "The Annotated H.G. Wells" series from McFarland.

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Titolo: The Invisible Man
Casa editrice: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Data di pubblicazione: 2020
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
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