'The man's become inhuman ... He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head.' One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clothing arrives in a remote English village.
His peculiar, secretive activities in the room he rents spook the locals. Speculation about his identity becomes horror and disbelief when the villagers discover that, beneath his disguise, he is invisible. Griffin, as the man is called, is an embittered scientist who is determined to exploit his extraordinary gifts, developed in the course of brutal self-experimentation, in order to conduct a Reign of Terror on the sleepy inhabitants of England.
As the police close in on him, he becomes ever more desperate and violent. In this pioneering novella, subtitled 'A Grotesque Romance', Wells combines comedy, both farcical and satirical, and tragedy - to superbly unsettling effect. Since its publication in 1897, The Invisible Man has haunted not only popular culture (in particular cinema) but also the greatest and most experimental novels of the twentieth century.
| ISBN: | 9780198702672 |
| Publication date: | 12th January 2017 |
| Author: | H G Wells |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Classic science fiction |
'The man's become inhuman ... He has cut himself off from his kind.
The Invisible Man features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic science fiction
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The Invisible Man was written by H G Wells and published by Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD
The Invisible Man has 192 pages
Yes it is part of Oxford World's Classics series
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