(THE INVISIBLE MAN) BY WELLS, H. G.(AUTHOR)Paperback Aug-1983
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(THE INVISIBLE MAN) BY WELLS, H. G.(AUTHOR)Paperback Aug-1983 Details
Barcelona. 24 cm. 86 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Biblioteca del terror', numero coleccion(7). Wells, H. G. 1866-1946. Traducción de Julio Gómez de la Serna. Gómez de la Serna, Julio. 1895-1983 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 847574012X
Reviews
I grew up on all the invisible man movies and still think of him as Claude Rains. I was surprised in the similarities and differences the book has to the movie. The scenes are rearranged from the book to make visual (or invisible) sense as a movie script.A man all warped up in bandages except for his large pink nose requires a room at the inn and pays well. Slowly the Innkeeper and her companions suspect there is more to his than just a man with bandages. Everyone in a while they glimpse light where there should not be. And the stranger is so cranky that the money may not be worth the trouble of keeping him. Soon there are strange happenings and the cat is out of the bag sort of speaking.The trail leads to murderer and a possible reign of terror. Read more to find out where the secret is reviled and how a man named Griffin got in this situation.If I had read this story a year ago I would have said it was a fairly well put together sci-fi story. I would just enjoy the writing and wonder how H.G. came up with the idea. However now after reading much of H.G.'s political writings I see that this is a thinly veiled social commentary. We find that unlike the movie where Griffin goes mad in the invisibility process, that in the book Griffin was always amoral and anything stressful could set him off. Also, somewhere out there is a couple of floating eyes that belong to a cat.Now one habit that .G. has in most of his tales is that just when you think he is finished on the subject, he will go off in another direction with some sub plot he has slipped in earlier. Therefore, what should have been a short story becomes a novel. Another good example of his witting style can be found in "The Food of the Gods."