Book overview: The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

-  Summary: Griffin, who is the main character, turned himself invisible with an earlier experiment. He enters a town and sets up a lab in an inn where he works night and day to discover a formula that will reverse his invisibility. When he accidentally revealed himself, he became immature and violent until he is forced to run and find a new hiding place. As more people became aware of his existence, his situation became more dangerous. Finally, he popped into the home of a former college professor who he assumes will be interested in his experiments and willing to help him. However, the doctor, Mr. Kemp, read about Griffin’s insane actions against people in the town and then, he found Griffin unreliable. Griffin is hunted down, caught and killed. After that, he became visible again. 


-  Culture: This story is set in the town of Iping, West Sussex, in England in 1897 and it's related to the dangerous power of modern science. It's also in a line of literary characters of mad scientists like Frankestein, the prototype of the man who isolates himself from his fellows to achieve an ambitious project and in the process loses his humanity. The Invisible Man has tended to focus on the scientific aspects of the story, especially about the ethic problems of modern technology.


-  Passage: "Everyone began to move. They expected scars, wounds, something ugly, but they saw - nothing! The bandages and false hair flew across the passage into the bar[...]
For the man who stood there shouting was a man up to the shoulders, and then - nothing!".


I found this passage important because is the moment in which it's discovered the real invisible man's identity. And because of this all the story starts to develop.