The Invisible Man (Wells klassiker #2)

I started reading this version of HG Wells’ “The Invisible Man” and after a few paragraph was completely confused by the writing. After a few pages, the writing was almost unintelligible. I can’t be sure but I would assume this is a translation into English from a foreign language – and done poorly.

Here is the Kindle version of the first sentences of the story:
The stranger GOT here early in February, one wintry day, thru a biting wind and a RIDING snow, the ULTIMATE snow fall of the 12 MONTHS, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and SPORTING a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.

Here’s the original text (I assume) from the Barnes & Noble Classics Collection (I’ve bolded the differences) the differences become more pronounced and undecipherable:
The stranger CAME here early in February, one wintry day, thru a biting wind and a DRIVING snow, the LAST snow fall of the YEAR, over the down, walking AS IT SEEMED from Bramblehurst railway station, and CARRYING a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.

You can’t go wrong reading H.G. Well’s The Invisible Man. It is captivating and intriguing, imaginative, and full of surprises.

This book is fine if you don’t need page numbers. I bought a class set and, unfortunately, there are no page numbers. This makes it difficult for me to keep students on the same page. This wouldn’t be a problem for an individual read.

This also says that it is annotated. There is absolutely zero annotation in this copy of The Invisible Man. I purchased it hoping the annotation would assist me in teaching 9th-grade students how to annotate. No go.

Wells is wonderful. The book is a great read. Buy this copy with caution based on your intentions when reading it.

First of all this book is mixed in with Invisible Man written by Ellison not this one written by H G Wells. That is my bad. But that being said I will read it because Wells books are classics. I just happened to be on another literary journey but failed to READ the description!
I have checked the comments others have made about this book since receiving it. I see a lot of complaints about pages not being numbered. Well that I can attest has been corrected but the 85 page content makes
The font so tiny it will give headaches. If this is the book you want to order check for a version of paperback which has double the amount of pages or at least over 100 pages so the type will be normal size.

Good literature never gets old and “The Invisible Man” is not the exception. Japanese invented emojis because internet communications, without gestures, are difficult to transmit the real feelings or motivations of our interlocutor. Each day we talk with armies of invisible men and women. Angels or monsters we don’t know. This novel begins with the works of the invisible man in a small village, we don’t know if he is in despair or hurt, but the vacuum behind his bandages, the nothing, is more horrible than mere tentacles or scars. I don’t love this first part, I like it very much, but feels a bit slow, as if the invisible man (such a village name) would be trapped into a dull place. I loved the second part, when the invisible man now has a name, Griffin; when he tells his life in the city of London, as fantastic as him. We will not get to see his face, but his mind and heart are exposed in all their cruelty; the rejection of richness, almost its cursing, by the obsession of power and revenge. The end shows the usual care of Wells to develop secondary characters, an end i will not tell of course, as it is infinitely better told in the book.

The AmazonClassics edition as always, for English speaking authors, is the best edition of classic works already in the public domain. The formatting is clean and comfortable to read, the typography is modern, the X-Ray is an unobtrusive help for terms and characters, and, which I love so much, the text is pure as the day it was published, without busybody intellectuals to spoil the plot. Or pure as the year it was published, for some reason AmazonClassics always lack the year of first publication… and it is not an exception in “The Invisible Man.” Beyond that minor detail the comfort to read Wells through the AmazonClassics Edition set it as a standard to measure other editions.

It took me six decades to finally read a H.G. Wells’ book and, I don’t know how “The Invisible Man” ranks among his works, but I enjoyed it very much. I especially enjoyed his descriptive style of writing, and the pacing of the book. What I found a little unnerving, and maybe it’s just me, is the lack of a central character to root and cheer on. The Invisible Man, Griffin, I found at times to be quite unlikable and the other characters not developed enough for me to seriously care about them.

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