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The Invisible Man
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1897 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells
Key facts
- Author
- H. G. Wells
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Science fiction novel
- Publisher
- C. Arthur Pearson (UK), Edward Arnold (US)
- Publication place
- United Kingdom
- Media type
- Print (hardback & paperback)
- Text
- The Invisible Man at Wikisource
via Wikipedia infobox
Full text
The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
standardebooks.org →Written in a time of rapid scientific progress and industrial development, Wells uses Griffin’s struggle with his condition and descent into obsession and madness to reflect on the dangers of unbridled scientific progress untempered by compassion or humanity. The Invisible Man was initially serialized in Pearson’s Weekly in 1897, after which it was published as a whole novel that same year. azw3 — Kindle devices and apps. Also download the Kindle cover thumbnail to see the cover in your Kindle’s library. Despite what you’ve been told, Kindle does not natively support epub. You may also be interested in our Kindle FAQ . kepub — Kobo devices and apps. You may also be interested in our Kobo FAQ . Advanced epub — An advanced format that uses the latest technology not yet fully supported by most ereaders. If you’re comfortable with technology and want to contribute directly, check out this ebook’s GitHub repository and our contributors section . You can also donate to Standard Ebooks to help fund continuing improvement of this and other ebooks.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- serialized fiction
- Author
- H. G. Wells
- Genre
- science fiction
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Narrative location
- Sussex
- Image
- Wells - The Invisible Man - Pearson cover 1897.jpg
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- Commons category
- The Invisible Man
- topic's main category
- Category:The Invisible Man
- characters
- Griffin
- language of work or name
- English language
- first line
- The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking as it seemed from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.
- last line
- So he lapses into a dream, the undying wonderful dream of his life. And though Kemp has fished unceasingly, and Adye has questioned closely, no human being save the landlord knows those books are there, with the subtle secret of invisibility and a dozen other strange secrets written therein. And none other will know of them until he dies.
- derivative work
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
- copyright status
- public domain
- title
- The Invisible Man
- form of creative work
- novel
- subtitle
- A Grotesque Romance
- work available at URL
- standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-g-wells/the-invisible-man
- publication date
- 1897-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialised in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man to whom the title refers 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 neither absorbs nor reflects light. 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".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Invisible Man” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.