The Invisible Man E-Book

H G Wells

• Herausgeber: H. G. Wells
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's 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 body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

The Book

The Author

Title

Copyright

The Invisible Man

1 - The Strange Man’s Arrival

2 - Mr. Teddy Henfrey’s First Impressions

3 - The Thousand and One Bottles

4 - Mr. Cuss Interviews the Stranger

5 - The Burglary at the Vicarage

6 - The Furniture That Went Mad

7 - The Unveiling of the Stranger

8 - In Transit

9 - Mr. Thomas Marvel

10 - Mr. Marvel’s Visit to Iping

11 - In the “Coach and Horses”

12 - The Invisible Man Loses His Temper

13 - Mr. Marvel Discusses His Resignation

14 - At Port Stowe

15 - The Man Who Was Running

16 - In the “Jolly Cricketers”

17 - Dr. Kemp’s Visitor

18 - The Invisible Man Sleeps

19 - Certain First Principles

20 - At the House in Great Portland Street

21 - In Oxford Street

22 - In the Emporium

23 - In Drury Lane

24 - The Plan That Failed

25 - The Hunting of the Invisible Man

26 - The Wicksteed Murder

27 - The Siege of Kemp’s House

28 - The Hunter Hunted

The Epilogue

The Book

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's 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 body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it.

While its predecessors, The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau, were written using first-person narrators, Wells adopts a third-person objective point of view in The Invisible Man.