About this title: Griffin has learned how to make himself invisible by scientifically making the body transparent. Once he has discovered this, Griffin burns his room, takes to the countryside and proceeds to try and terrorize and overpower people. Unfortunately for him, they are not so terrified after all, and his visions of dominance crumble. He stops at an inn, ...
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Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Text is clean & bright with very light wear-a couple bent page corners. Cover has some edgewear, but is mostly seemingly indestructable. 142 p. Best seller classics. No date. Original price 50 cents. Yellow/orange plastic-type durable & bendable cover with white lettering. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Watermill Press
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780893754150ISBN:0893754153
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: Children/juvenile. Minor wear and tear of cover and pages from being read so often! Complete and unabridged book of this now classic tale. How does one become "invisible"? A man scientis can make himself be invisible. Read what happens. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780553213539ISBN:0553213539
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 160 p. Bantam Classics. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Airmont Publishing Co.
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to cover, light yellowing to pages, stk #2177q9. 127 p. read more
"How can a person of complete competence go from an intelligent scientist who made a brilliant discover to a criminal with a lack of mental stability? Griffin, a scientist, theorized that if a person's refractive index is adjusted to that of air and did not reflect or absorb any light, then that person will become invisible. He tests his theory, and though his theory is a success, a horrifying outcome came about; Griffin turned himself invisible. H.G Wells' The Invisible Man made twists and turns from the beginning to end. When reading The Invisible Man, I immediately noticed how Wells introduced his readers to the characters. Each character had individuality. The characters had their own style, their own appearance, their own personality, and their own past. Wells' detail on this story's characters can be compared to a great artist's skill of detail on his painting. Some barely use old English slang, such as Dr. Kemp, others use jargon in every other sentence, such as Mr. and Mrs. Hall. The story began with Griffin's arrival at the Hall's inn, the Coach and Horses Inn, where he appeared as an unconventional and reclusive stranger to the citizens of Iping by covering up every inch of his skin. The stranger worked with chemicals and demanded to be left alone. Who would find that ordinary? At the same time all of this happens, mysterious robberies occurred in Iping, and none of the victims caught the sight of their thief. One morning, as Mr. and Mrs. Hall passed the stranger's room, they notice the stranger's clothing scattered all over the floor with no stranger in sight. The furniture appeared to come alive and leaped into mid-air to push the couple out of the room. Griffin then revealed his invisibility by ripping off his bandages and goggles to reveal that there was nothing under it all. The chaos started here when the police tried to catch Griffin, but he stripped himself of all his clothing and makes an escape. Griffin encountered Thomas Marvel during this escape, only to force Marvel into becoming his lab assistant by scaring Marvel with his invisibility. Marvel fled to an inn located at the seaside. When Griffin tries to break in to the inn, a man with a black beard shoots him. Griffin then escaped the scene to a house, that happened to belong to Dr. Kemp, an old friend of his, in order to tend to his wound. He recognized Dr. Kemp right away and revealed his identity to not only Kemp, but the reader (he was previously known as a mysterious stranger). And from that point on, I feel the reader should find out about by himself or herself. I recommend this book to fans of sci-fi novels, because this is classical sci-fi! Not to mention, the "Father of Sci-Fi" wrote this story. Wells filled this story with chaos, suspense, insanity, and curiosity pickers, making the book quite a page turner. With the old English terms in this story, it can be a bit difficult to understand, so I recommend The Invisible Man for readers of a higher level."
"Would being invisible not be awesome?! Maybe- maybe not. In The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, Griffin finds out for himself, and what he finds is not what was expected. A person may believe that being invisible would give them power. They would have the power to do whatever they want, go wherever they want, and nobody would see them. Nobody would have to know. A scientist, Griffin, wanted this power, and power is what he got.
After his power rush, Griffin realized that he needed something else. He needed help. He could not accomplish anything as an invisible man. Griffin begins his search for a person to help him. One of the people that he finds is Marvel. When Griffin first revealed himself to Marvel, as one would expect, Marvel was confused. He was startled and baffled. The people that Griffin revealed himself to in The Invisible Man were very skeptical about Griffin's intentions because he was often harsh and impatient with the people who offered him help.
With the setting in the small town of Iping in England, Griffin first arrives to stay at an inn in the small town called "The Coach and Horses." Mr. and Mrs. Hall, the owners of the inn questioned Griffin for his strange character. He was always wrapped completely in bandages as if he had been badly injured. He also always wore a large hat, glasses, and gloves. Griffin always insisted on being left alone to perform him 'experiments.'
The Invisible Man uses old English jargon to tell the story of this mad scientist and his battle to cope with being invisible. Griffin is forced to steal, cheat, and lie to overcome his handicap, but as one would assume, a secret life like that can not last forever. Griffin is soon revealed, and his battle with his self-inflicted invisibility will finally come to an end in this novel by H.G. Wells."
H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man opened my eyes to a different style of writing. This book taught me that i do not like the genre of sci-fi. Though this genre is very imaginative and interesting, sci-fi just seems to unreal for my taste.
Griffin is the main character of this book. Though he is a very talented scientist, experimenting on optical density, Griffin is very greedy and wants all the fame of success to be his alone. The character moves into an apartment to continue his work in privacy. After being hassled by his landlord and spending most of his money, he turns himself invisible as a way to escape. What I found odd about this novel is, why would he not make invisible clothes for himself so he would not have to run around naked? Personally I would not feel comfortable preforming experiments, let alone fight with people, naked. The invisible man is an interesting character because realizes that one man can not do everything on his own. Unfortunately by that time the danger and horror of his actions have escalated far further than expected and the person he chooses to share his secrets with betrays him.
The tone of this book is anger the invisible man is angry at society because of how they treated him. The language in used in The Invisible Man is not what I am used to, but it does set the mood of England during the 1900's. It is interesting that Griffin functioned in society for so long without being unmasked. Though I reality was staring many in the face they dismissed the uncommon truth. This shows that people choose what to believe and what to write off as imagination, no matter what the truth may be.
The Invisible Man was not one of my favorite books but the novel shows how society wound react to something as bizarre as an invisible man. I do recommend this book to those sci-fi lovers out there because of the interesting way H. G. Wells keeps you wanting to turn the pages to discover what really happened."
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