The Invisible Man - Wells, H G; Schlichter, William
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When a mysterious stranger, wrapped in bandages arrives at an inn in the English village of Iping, the lives of everyone will be changed forever. Griffin is a young scientist who, upon discovering the key to invisibility, must live in his own personal hell, where every moment is another experiment, and every experiment brings a new failure as he tries to reverse the effects. As his failures mount, Griffin descends into madness, bringing death and destruction to the village. The Invisible Man is a classic study in psychological horror and chaos that will give you chills and asks the scientific…mehr

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When a mysterious stranger, wrapped in bandages arrives at an inn in the English village of Iping, the lives of everyone will be changed forever. Griffin is a young scientist who, upon discovering the key to invisibility, must live in his own personal hell, where every moment is another experiment, and every experiment brings a new failure as he tries to reverse the effects. As his failures mount, Griffin descends into madness, bringing death and destruction to the village. The Invisible Man is a classic study in psychological horror and chaos that will give you chills and asks the scientific question, just because you can, doesn't mean you should. This edition contains a special introduction by horror and science fiction author William Schlichter.
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Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, and even including two books on recreational war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback.[5][6][a] During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web.[7] His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction".[8] Wells rendered his works convincing by instilling commonplace detail alongside a single extraordinary assumption - dubbed "Wells's law" - leading Joseph Conrad to hail him in 1898 as "O Realist of the Fantastic!".[9] His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898) and the military science fiction The War in the Air (1907). Wells was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.[10] Wells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context.[11] He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathising with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he wrote little science fiction, while he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of journalist.[12] Novels such as Kipps and The History of Mr Polly, which describe lower-middle-class life, led to the suggestion that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens,[13]but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole. A diabetic, Wells co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association (known today as Diabetes UK) in 1934