ASIN: B00M6N1R92
Publisher: Running Press
Pages: 690
Consisting of:The Invisable ManThe War of the WorldsThe Time MachineThe Island of Doctor MoreauThe Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells published in 1897. Originally serialised in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title 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 absorbs and reflects no light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse the procedure.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 plot has been related to invasion literature of the time. The novel has been variously ...
