Book summary:
It all starts one afternoon when a very strange man, covered from head to toe in bandages and a heavy coat arrives at an inn in a small town in England. After straying for a while at the inn, the strange man reveals that he is, in fact, an invisible man. Then, after telling this to the owner of the inn, he flees from the small town, only to arrive at another small town.
There, he finds a tramp to be his helper, who helps him retrieve his clothes and books from the place he fled from. When this helper betrays the invisible man, he finds another man to tell his story to.
Before he became invisible, he had been a scientist who had discovered a way to turn himself invisible. This at first is a marvelous discovery, but all to soon invisibility become a great burden.
Year published: originally 1897, this edition 2018
Publisher: originally Penguin Books, this edition Vintage Classics
Illustrator: none
Religion/ belief system: none, characters go to church
Profanity and violence: “d***”, Lord’s name in vain, “devil”, “a**”, guns/shooting, fighting, suicide, murder
Drinking, drugs, smoking: pipe smoking, cigars, beer, alcohol, mentions drugs
Romance: none
Book type: fiction
Genre: sci-fi
Miscellaneous: mentions the occult
Thoughts: Okay, this book was kind of crazy! It was good, but the whole concept of someone actually being able to turn himself invisible is wild. (Obviously, its science fiction, and no one as of yet has been able to actually turn invisible, but that would be awesome!)