The Invisible Man
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Cursed by his own invention, a brilliant scientist is driven to a life of crime in this groundbreaking novel from a master of mystery and science fictionThe Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells published in 1897. Originally serialized in Pearsons Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. 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 bodys refractive index to that of air so that it absorbs and reflects no light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse the procedure.Amazon.com ReviewWe rely, in this world, on the visual aspects of humanity as a means of learning who we are. This, Ralph Ellison argues convincingly, is a dangerous habit. A classic from the moment it first appeared in 1952, Invisible Man chronicles the travels of its narrator, a young, nameless black man, as he moves through the hellish levels of American intolerance and cultural blindness. Searching for a context in which to know himself, he exists in a very peculiar state. I am an invisible man, he says in his prologue. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination--indeed, everything and anything except me. But this is hard-won self-knowledge, earned over the course of many years.As the book gets started, the narrator is expelled from his Southern Negro college for inadvertently showing a white trustee the reality of black life in the south, including an incestuous farmer and a rural whorehouse. The college director chastises him: Why, the dumbest black bastard in the cotton patch knows that the only way to please a white man is to tell him a lie! What kind of an education are you getting around here? Mystified, the narrator moves north to New York City, where the truth, at least as he perceives it, is dealt another blow when he learns that hi
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