The Invisible Man  (Oxford Worlds Classics)

H.G.Wells

Publisher: OUP Oxford (2017/1/12)

Series Title: Oxford World's Classics

平装: 192 pages

Language: 英语

ISBN: 0198702671

EAN: 9780198702672

Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 1.3 x 13 cm

Item Weight: 141 g

内容简介

'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 is 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.