The Invisible Man
A Grotesque Romance
1st Edition
Published on 22. December 2016
208 pages
978-0-19-100720-0 (ISBN)
Description
'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.
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Matthew Beaumont is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at University College London. He is the author of Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London, Chaucer to Dickens (2015) and The Spectre of Utopia: Utopian and Science Fictions at the Fin de Siècle (2012). He has edited Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and Walter Pater's Studies in the History of the Renaissance for Oxford World's Classics.
Content
- Cover
- The Invisible Man
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 'A Grotesque Romance'
- Alienation and Identity
- Terror and Tragedy
- Afterlives of The Invisible Man
- NOTE ON THE TEXT
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Biography and Letters
- The Invisible Man and Wells's Early Fiction
- Literary and Cultural Contexts
- Further Reading in Oxford World's Classics
- A CHRONOLOGY OF H. G. WELLS
- The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance
- CONTENTS
- Chapter I: The Strange Man's Arrival
- Chapter II: Mr Teddy Henfrey's First Impressions
- Chapter III: The Thousand and One Bottles
- Chapter IV: Mr Cuss Interviews the Stranger
- Chapter V: The Burglary at the Vicarage
- Chapter VI: The Furniture that Went Mad
- Chapter VII: The Unveiling of the Stranger
- Chapter VIII: In Transit
- Chapter IX: Mr Thomas Marvel
- Chapter X: Mr Marvel's Visit to Iping
- Chapter XI: In the 'Coach and Horses'
- Chapter XII: The Invisible Man Loses His Temper
- Chapter XIII: Mr Marvel Discusses His Resignation
- Chapter XIV: At Port Stowe
- Chapter XV: The Man Who was Running
- Chapter XVI: In the 'Jolly Cricketers'
- Chapter XVII: Dr Kemp's Visitor
- Chapter XVIII: The Invisible Man Sleeps
- Chapter XIX: Certain First Principles
- Chapter XX: At the House in Great Portland Street
- Chapter XXI: In Oxford Street
- Chapter XXII: In the Emporium
- Chapter XXIII: In Drury Lane
- Chapter XXIV: The Plan that Failed
- Chapter XXV: The Hunting of the Invisible Man
- Chapter XXVI: The Wicksteed Murder
- Chapter XXVII: The Siege of Kemp's House
- Chapter XXVIII: The Hunter Hunted
- APPENDIX I: THE EPILOGUE
- APPENDIX II: VARIANT ENDINGS TO CHAPTER XXVIII
- Serial Version: Pearson's Weekly, 7 August 1897
- Second English Edition: Pearson, 1897
- First American Edition: Edward Arnold, 1897
- EXPLANATORY NOTES
- THE INVISIBLE MAN
- APPENDIX I
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