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The Invisible Man (Paperback)

by H.G. Wells (Author)
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  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz (6 Dec 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 185798949X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857989496
  • Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 12.9 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 196,932 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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H.G. Wells' great novel of the dangers of science describes a man cast out from society by his own terrifying discovery. THE INVISIBLE MAN tells the story of Griffin, a brilliant and obsessed scientist dedicated to achieving invisibility. Taking whatever action is necessary to keep his incredible discovery safe, he terrorises the local village where he has sought refuge. Wells skilfully weaves the themes of science, terror and pride as the invisible Griffin gradually loses his sanity and, ultimately, his humanity.

About the Author
HG Wells was born in Bromley, Kent in 1866. After working as a draper's apprentice and pupil-teacher, he won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in 1884, studying under T H Huxley. He was awarded a first-class honours degree in biology and resumed teaching but had to retire after a kick from an ill-natured pupil afflicted his kidneys. He worked in poverty in London as a crammer while experimenting in journalism and stories. It was with The Time Machine (1895) that he had his real breakthrough.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Dated but still classic, 27 Jan 2002
By S. Flaherty "steve3742" (Nottingham) - See all my reviews
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This book is one of the ones which could have been said to have launched Science Fiction, over 100 years ago. The main problem with reading it is that you think you already know it as it has been made into a film and gone into modern parlance. But this doesn't prepare you for reading the actual story that Wells wrote. Along with everything else, Wells was a good storyteller and this is something you realise as you read this book. He portrays the protaganist, Griffin the Invisible man, very clearly as someone who has been driven insane by what has happened to him but doesn't actually realise this and so makes a deranged sort of sense as he lays out his plans for world domination - only to be bought up short by the forces of Victorian Society.

Of course, we've all heard and seen this many times since. But Wells was one of the first to show this and all later Science Fiction writers owe this to him.

You can criticise, of course. The Science is laughable, or at least seems so from a smug 21st century distance. It's easy to criticise with hindsight. Wells' strength as an author was that he could speculate, which is of course the basis of Sci-Fi. That some speculations were wrong was inevitable. And it doesn't detract from a great read. This should be read as a book of its time - a great book of its time.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars What would you do if you were invisible?, 7 Jul 2003
By Paulo Andre (Portugal) - See all my reviews
H. G. Wells "The Invisible Man" is the story of a man who has discovered the secret of invisibility and how to render a human body completely invisible. And who else to serve as a guinea pig for such an experiment? Himself. This is therefore, for all it concerns, the story of a man who alienated his sanity as the price to pay for achieving the ultimate way of doing everything a human being wants to do but is not allowed to.

I must say this is the first book I've read by H. G. Wells so I can't really compare this to the rest of his catalogue. Nevertheless, and despite the physics background involved being a little dated in the light of the 21st century, this is a story very well told by someone who seems indeed to have been a great storyteller. And I can only imagine how ground breaking this and other Wells' works must have been taking into account they were mostly published in the early 20th century.

All in all, a very decent (and shortish, 138 pages) story, worthy of being part of the Orion SF Masterworks and, in my opinion, definetly better than the 2000 film "Hollow Man" with Kevin Bacon which is supposedly based upon Wells' concept.

3 & 1/2 out of 5 (the additional 1/2 due to the story's age and which adds credit to it)

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