The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance

H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

Original en 48164 words First published 1897 United Kingdom

H. G. Wells's 1897 science-fiction classic. A strange figure in goggles and bandages takes rooms at an inn in a Sussex village, with a trunk of chemical equipment and no explanation. He is Griffin, a brilliant scientist who has made himself invisible — and discovered that invisibility is a curse: without sight, clothes, money or a place in the world, he slides into madness and terrorizes the countryside. A masterpiece of the scientist-outcast tradition: the scientist's discovery that cuts him off from humanity, told with Wells's unflagging momentum.

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The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance

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