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The Invisible Man

By H G Wells

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| Hardcover | 9780606036344

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Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952.  A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph ElContinue

Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952.  A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century.  The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood", and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.  The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.

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    HG must have written this with a twinkle in his eye, chuckling to himself. The story is quite good, but what really makes this novel is the writing.

    Sample: "You must picture Mr. Thomas Marvel as a person of copious, flexible visage, a nose of cylindrical protrusion, a liquorish, ample, fluct ... (continue)

    HG must have written this with a twinkle in his eye, chuckling to himself. The story is quite good, but what really makes this novel is the writing.

    Sample: "You must picture Mr. Thomas Marvel as a person of copious, flexible visage, a nose of cylindrical protrusion, a liquorish, ample, fluctuating mouth, and a beard of bristling eccentricity. His figure inclined to embonpoint; his short limbs accentuated this inclination. He wore a furry silk hat, and the frequent substitution of twine and shoe-laces for buttons, apparent at critical points of his costume, marked a man essentially a bachelor."

    Loving it!

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    annemarie said on Aug 15, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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    This book always reminds me of my first attempt to read a book in English. I love it !

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    hphilly said on Dec 25, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • There were parts of this book that really made me laugh. I also really enjoyed when he was wandering around naked on Oxford Street and by the British Museum. On the whole I don't think it was by any means Wells' best. But still highly enjoyable.

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    Robot-mel said on Dec 22, 2007 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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