The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance (Campfire Graphic Novels) - Softcover

Wells, H. G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9380028296 ISBN 13: 9789380028293

Publisher: Campfire, 2010

Synopsis

'The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow.'

When the residents of Iping first see him, he is wearing an overcoat and goggles, and is covered from head to toe with bandages. His hidden identity and mysterious behavior causes the locals to start asking questions. At first they assume he must have been involved in some kind of horrific accident. But the truth is far more alarming than that.

As the reality of the situation starts to become clear, only one thing is certain; the stranger is a troubled soul and can only deal with his personal fear by terrorizing the people around him.

First published in 1897, The Invisible Man is HG Wells's warning to the world about the dangers of science without humanity.

About this title

From the Publisher

This work is part of "The Annotated H.G. Wells" series from McFarland.

From the Inside Flap

Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and touching--yet always with elements of comedy and irony and burlesque that appear in unexpected places. It is a book that has a great deal to say and which is destined to have a great deal said about it.

After a brief prologue, the story begins with a terrifying experience of the hero's high school days, moves quickly to the campus of a Southern Negro college and then to New York's Harlem, where most of the action takes place. The many people that the hero meets in the course of his wanderings are remarkably various, complex and significant. With them he becomes involved in an amazing series of adventures, in which he is sometimes befriended but more often deceived and betrayed--as much by himself and his own illusions as by the duplicity of the blindness of others.

Invisible Man is not only a great triumph of storytelling and characterization; it is a profound and uncompromising interpretation of the Negro's anomalous position in American society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Campfire
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 9380028296
• ISBN 13: 9789380028293
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72