The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells Fiction Classics Science Fiction 0809596369 (Hardcover - Used)

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A century ago H.G. Wells was one of the men who all but created the science fiction novel. Wells wrote three classics in four years: The Time Machine (1895) The Invisible Man (1897) and The War of the Worlds (1898). 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. The Invisible Man owes an obvious debt to Frankenstein as it explores the nature of mankind asking weather an invisible man still be bound by the morality that seems natural to us. Seems like a natural thing doesn t it? But listen to the story Wells tells and the doubt he places on a thing seemingly obvious: A researcher working (more or less) as a graduate student in physics discovers a treatment that will make himself invisible. Griffin -- our invisible man -- may well be morally bankrupt before he takes the treatment. He begins by making himself invisible to avoid paying his rent -- and as he sneaks out of the building he sets it afire as a lesson for his landlord. He steals money entrusted to his father -- and causes his father to suicide in shame . . . but that s only the beginning.