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Today we are reading Herbert George Wells’s novel «The Invisible Man». «The Invisible Man» (1897) is one of Wells’s earliest and best known science-fiction novels. The invisible man to whom the title refers is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and who invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light. He carries out this procedure on himself and renders himself invisible, but fails in his attempt to reverse it. A practitioner of random and irresponsible violence, Griffin has become an iconic character in horror fiction. The novel is considered influential and helped establish Wells as the “father of science fiction“. Through «The Invisible Man» Wells discusses the scientist’s place in the world and the methods and values of scientific research. «The Invisible Man» is not only a promotion of a new brand of theoretical science, but also a warning against the power of knowledge and the unint
