The Invisible Man Summary
H. G. Wells

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The Invisible Man Summary

The Invisible Man is a tale of suspense that focuses on an insane medical student, Griffin, who has discovered how to make people invisible. Because he is mad and invisible, Griffin poses a special threat to the community. He can steal from people and assault them as if he were a ghost. As the police close in on him, he becomes more desperate and more dangerous. A tale of gripping suspense, the novel...

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Encyclopedia Articles (1)

Invisible Man

3,316 words, approx. 12 pages

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma City in 1914. Though his talents and interests were varied, he decided in high school to pursue a career as a musician. In 1936, th... Read more

Project Gutenberg eBooks (1)

The Invisible Man

56,624 words, approx. 189 pages

THE STRANGE MAN’S ARRIVAL The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst r... Read more

H. G. Wells Biographies (7)

H. G. Wells

5,515 words, approx. 19 pages

"The thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a glittering metallic framework, scarcely larger than a small clock, and very delicately made, There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystallin... Read more

Herbert George Wells

603 words, approx. 3 pages

The English author Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) began his career as a novelist with a popular sequence of science fiction that remains the most familiar part of his work. He later wrote realistic ... Read more

H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells

9,451 words, approx. 32 pages

H. G. Wells's earlier works of science fiction have retained their popularity for nearly a century. In recent years they have also won academic regard for integrating the fantastic with the realistic ... Read more

H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells

4,937 words, approx. 17 pages

Over a career that spanned five decades, H. G. Wells produced nearly a hundred full-length books, a large portion of them novels and collections of short fiction. In his 1934 autobiography Wells accur... Read more

H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells

11,715 words, approx. 40 pages

Herbert George Wells was one of the most prolific and most popular writers of short fiction of his era and of the twentieth century. Some of his longer fictions, such as The Time Machine: An Invention... Read more

H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells

8,613 words, approx. 29 pages

Fantastic literature has existed as long as literature itself; Renaissance thinkers wrote of utopias and imaginary voyages into space; Jonathan Swift employed the fantastic in Gulliver's Travels (1726... Read more

Herbert George Wells

10,096 words, approx. 34 pages

Biography EssayH. G. Wells's earlier works of science fiction have retained their popularity for nearly a century. In recent years they have also won academic regard for integrating the fantastic with... Read more

Essays & Analysis (8)

Richard Kostelanetz

9,705 words, approx. 33 pages

788 words, approx. 3 pages

     The complexity of the issues in the Invisible Man is obvious even in the first several chapters.  Ralph Ellison uses, among other things, imagery, first-hand experiences, symb... Read more

Let America Redecorate

813 words, approx. 3 pages

The table of American history is a very ornate piece of furniture. A beautiful glass top is laid across it and lovely filigree graces the bottom of the four legs which are holding up the table, Americ... Read more

Summary of "The Invisible Man"

2,441 words, approx. 9 pages

When only a little of the black chemical remains, Kimbro instructs the narrator to go to the tank room to get more. There, however, the narrator finds seven tanks marked by incomprehensible codes, lea... Read more

Food Symbolism in The Invisible Man

890 words, approx. 3 pages

In the mystifying novel Invisible man food is being used as a window to a man's past. Food acting as a motif reoccurs various times throughout the novel to bring back a sense of nostalgia. The novelis... Read more

Characters in the Invisible Man

2,115 words, approx. 8 pages

Social groups, with all of their inequities, are represented by characters in the novel. They are explained and developed as the society, growing or otherwise living with their situation. ... Read more

Identity Crisis in The Invisible Man

6,598 words, approx. 22 pages

If asked, "Who are you"" most people would not find it difficult to answer. But what if there was no answer to this question? What if someone had no true identity? What if the only way to truly achiev... Read more

Light and Truth in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

1,068 words, approx. 4 pages

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man tells of one man's realizations of the world. This man, the invisible man, comes to realize through experience what the world is really like. He realizes that there i... Read more

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