See no evil...
Making yourself invisible...imagine the possibilities. Aside from criminal acts, peeping tom
proclivities and a distinct advantage in spy craft, being invisible might get
old very quickly...
H.G. Wells' The Invisible
Man was first serialized in the magazine Pearson's Weekly before being published as a book in that same
year. It also speaks from the third
person, whereas two previous blockbuster novels by his hand do not.
The main character is Griffin, a man who has mastered the
scientific art of invisibility, and cannot figure out how to turn it off. Wandering to the distant outskirt of an
English town, he locks himself away in an Inn and feverishly tries to reverse
his predicament.
Needless to say..."things always go as planned", and those
best laid plans seem to always go the way of the dodo bird. Our dark hero meets an end...one that you'll
have to discover in your very own first edition copy...
The U.S. First Edition: