Invisible Man (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Oxford World's Classics
Antal sidor
192
Utgivningsdatum
2017-01-12
Förlag
Oxford University Press
Medarbetare
Beaumont, Matthew
Dimensioner
196 x 127 x 13 mm
Vikt
141 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780198702672

Invisible Man

A Grotesque Romance

av H G Wells, H G Wells, Matthew Beaumont, Matthew Beaumont
Häftad,  Engelska, 2017-01-12
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'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 his 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.

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Leah Galbraith, FictionFan [An] informative introduction... reading these OWC editions has enhanced my pleasure hugely; the introductions are always well written and give just the right amount of information to inform without overloading the reader with lots of irrelevant detail or academic jargon.

David V Barrett, Fortean Times Very smart-looking new editions of SF classics.

Desperate Reader The ideas that Wells explores are as relevant as ever

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Matthew Beaumont is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at University College London. He is the author of Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London, Chaucer to Dickens (2015) and The Spectre of Utopia: Utopian and Science Fictions at the Fin de Siècle (2012). He has edited Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and Walter Pater's Studies in the History of the Renaissance for Oxford World's Classics.

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