Annotated H.G. Wells: The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance (Paperback)

from baswood

"Every conceivable sort of silly creature that has ever been created has been sent to cross me. If I have much more of it, I shall go wild. I shall start mowing them" says Griffin: the invisible man. H G Well's character is unsympathetic in the extreme and this is what in the end gives this book ...

from Blenny

I didn't expect this book to be as good as it was. I expected it to be a bit turgid but found it was quite the opposite, funny even. There is a definite dark humour running throughout this novel and I surprised myself by bursting into laughter (rather embarrassingly) on the train at one point! I ...

from ssimon2000

Read as part of the BIG BUDDY READ, 2015 EDITION!4 stars.H.G. Wells' "The Invisible Man" (1897) is the account of a scientist condemned to invisibility because of an ill-advised decision to consume a concoction that hadn't been fully tested. After conducting secret experiments for four years whil...

from pscindy

Since HG Wells wrote The Invisible Man in 1897, the title character has been the subject of countless reinterpretations and parodies in several formats. This made reading the original book somewhat of a challenge. The first few chapters were particularly difficult. The townsfolk were all freaked ...

from themulhern

Lively and bizarrely humorous. There are numerous comic English characters. H. G. Wells was not all that impressed by his countrymen. This book is very different from "The Island of Dr. Moreau", the only one of Wells' other books that I have read. The reading was excellent. There is some inherent...