{"product_id":"the-invisible-man","title":"The Invisible Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1897, H. G. Wells’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Invisible Man\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e begins with the arrival of a mysterious stranger at an inn in the Sussex village of Iping, his face concealed by bandages and his behaviour increasingly alarming to the locals. The stranger is Griffin, a brilliant but reckless scientist who has discovered how to render himself invisible, only to find that his extraordinary achievement brings isolation rather than freedom. As his experiments give way to increasingly desperate acts, Wells turns a fantastic premise into a gripping story of ambition, paranoia and the dangers of power without restraint.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlending scientific speculation with dark comedy and psychological suspense, the novel examines the uneasy relationship between knowledge and morality, as well as the social consequences of becoming detached from ordinary human life. Griffin is both a figure of scientific ingenuity and a disturbing portrait of unchecked individualism, whose invisibility exposes the fragility of the conventions that govern society. A key work in Wells’s early scientific romances, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Invisible Man\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e remains a defining contribution to speculative fiction, unsettling in its suggestion that the greatest danger may lie not in what cannot be seen, but in what happens when accountability disappears.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— H. G. Wells, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Invisible Man\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eThe Invisible Man\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Wells was a master of the scientific romance.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Encyclopaedia Britannica\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64064822477130,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/fr\/products\/the-invisible-man","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}