The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance (Bantam Classics) Mass Market Paperback – August 1, 1983
Author: Visit ‘s H.G. Wells Page ID: 0553213539
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Two of Wells’s masterpieces get the red-carpet treatment here in these luxurious editions. Along with annotated texts, they feature scholarly introductions and appendixes, bibliographies, illustrations, and indexes. Though they are perhaps a tad pricey for most public libraries, academic collections supporting English departments should definitely invest in these volumes.
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“I personally consider the greatest of English living writers [to be] H. G. Wells.” —Upton Sinclair
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Series: Bantam ClassicsMass Market Paperback: 160 pagesPublisher: Bantam Classics (August 1, 1983)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0553213539ISBN-13: 978-0553213539 Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.4 x 6.8 inches Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #1,199,457 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #24541 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Classics #27011 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror #43526 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction
First, this edition: it’s reasonably well-formatted for a free ebook, with few typos, although the table of contents is not clickable; it clocks in at 1,841 "locations."
As to the story itself:
This is H.G. Wells’ foundational science-fiction tale of a mad scientist who discovers a way to turn himself invisible. It’s a masterfully told story that’s been entertaining readers for roughly a hundred years, and I’d lay good odds you’ll find it well worth the read.
What many readers might miss, though (I certainly did, my first time through) is that this isn’t just a sci-fi potboiler; it’s a modernization of the Platonic story of the Ring of Gyges. Beyond being a master storyteller, Wells was also an ardent philosopher and socialist, and like all of his other tales, there’s a major political point here — that morality derives from society — and some additional minor political themes, like the plight of the urban poor.
Wells’ genius here was to take the Platonic story of a Ring of Invisibility that inevitably led its wearer to commit injustice, and revitalize it in a modern context and in a way that made a sophisticated philosophical point.
Where Plato’s Glaucon states:
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"For all men believe in their hearts that injustice is far more profitable to the individual than justice, and he who argues as I have been supposing, will say that they are right. If you could imagine any one obtaining this power of becoming invisible, and never doing any wrong or touching what was another’s, he would be thought by the lookers-on to be a most wretched idiot, although they would praise him to one another’s faces, and keep up appearances with one another from a fear that they too might suffer injustice.
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