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The Invisible ManOn the coverAn Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768
The Invisible Man
A brilliant, embittered scientist discovers how to make himself invisible, and finds that the power he schemed for tips him swiftly toward terror and madness. Wells’s chilling parable of science without conscience.
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A tense, gripping thriller and a sharp fable about power without accountability, read in a sitting and remembered for years. Science fiction’s dark side, distilled.
SettingSouthern England, 1890s
A quiet English village and the modern laboratory, where the promise of science shades, in one obsessed man, into something monstrous.