{"product_id":"the-invisible-man-a-grotesque-romance-paperback","title":"The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eH. G. Wells\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMatthew Beaumont\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clothing arrives in a remote English village. His peculiar, secretive activities in the room he rents spook the locals. Speculation about his identity becomes horror and disbelief when the villagers discover that, beneath his disguise, he is invisible. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGriffin, as the man is called, is an embittered scientist who is determined to exploit his extraordinary gifts, developed in the course of brutal self-experimentation, in order to conduct a Reign of Terror on the sleepy inhabitants of England. As the police close in on him, he becomes ever more desperate and violent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this pioneering novella, subtitled \"A Grotesque Romance,\" Wells combines comedy, both farcical and satirical, and tragedy--to superbly unsettling effect. Since its publication in 1897, \u003cem\u003eThe Invisible Man\u003c\/em\u003e has haunted not only popular culture (in particular cinema) but also the greatest and most experimental novels of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMatthew Beaumont\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at University College London. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eNightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eChaucer to Dickens\u003c\/em\u003e (2015) and \u003cem\u003eThe Spectre of Utopia: Utopian and Science Fictions at the Fin de Siecle\u003c\/em\u003e (2012). He has edited Edward Bellamy's \u003cem\u003eLooking Backward\u003c\/em\u003e and Walter Pater's\u003cem\u003e Studies in the History of the Renaissance \u003c\/em\u003efor Oxford World's Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 12, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47227387052281,"sku":"9780198702672","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Wi9SS2JJSXNQVDBQU09MS0ZmdXk2UT09.webp?v=1768279636","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-invisible-man-a-grotesque-romance-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}