The Invisible Man

Reprint

Wells, H. G. , Westerfeld, Scott , Wagar, W. Warren 저자(글)

Signet Book · 2010년 10월 05일

책 소개

Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, England, on September 21, 1866. His father was a professional cricketer and sometime shopkeeper, his mother a former lady's maid. Although "Bertie" left school at fourteen to become a draper's apprentice (a life he detested), he later won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London, where he studied with the famous Thomas Henry Huxley. He began to sell articles and short stories regularly in 1893. In 1895, his immediately successful novel rescued him from a life of penury on a schoolteacher's salary. His other "scientific romances"- The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The First Men in the Moon (1901), and The War in the Air (1908)-won him distinction as the father of science fiction. Henry James saw in Wells the most gifted writer of the age, but Wells, having coined the phrase "the war that will end war" to describe World War I, became increasingly disillusioned and focused his attention on educating mankind with his bestselling Outline of History (1920) and his later utopian works. Living until 1946, Wells witnessed a world more terrible than any of his imaginative visions, and he bitterly observed: "Reality has taken a leaf from my book and set itself to supercede me." Isaac Asimov authored over 400 books in a career that lasted nearly 50 years. As a leading scientific writer, historian, and futurist, he covered a variety of subjects ranging from mathematics to humor, and won numerous awards for his work.
A Science Fiction Classic From the twentieth century's first great practitioner of the novel of ideas comes a consummate masterpiece of science fiction about a man trapped in the terror of his own creation.
It's one of the most famous novels of the 19th century, and probably the one that's least actually read. *The Invisible Man,* first published in 1897, became the basis for the classic 1933 film starring Claude Rains-as well as its many spinoffs-but the novel is quite different: it's an early example of science fantasy that was as much about character as it was about concept. One of the most enduringly popular writers of modern literature, Wells here assured his position as one of the fathers of imaginative literature with his psychologically complex tale of a scientist who renders himself invisible and eventually goes mad because of it. And because it focuses more on people than on technology, it remains a compelling tale even more than a century after it was written. British author HERBERT GEORGE WELLS (1866-1946) is best known for his groundbreaking science fiction novels *The Time Machine* (1895), *The Invisible Man* (1897), and *The War of the Worlds* (1898).
Reprint. Originally published: 2002. With new afterword.

작가정보

저자(글) Wells, H. G.

문명비평가이자 SF의 창시자라 불리는 허버트 조지 웰즈는 1866년 영국에서 태어났다. 그는 7세 때 발목을 다쳐서 오랫동안 누워 있어야만 했는데, 그 지루한 시간을 보내기 위해 책을 읽기 시작한 것이 동기가 되어 독서에 흥미를 갖게 되었다. 어려운 환경으로 인해 어려서부터 가게 점원, 치과의사 보조 등 여러 가지 일을 하면서 자라난 그는 18세가 되던 해에 런던대학 생물학과에 진학한다. 대학을 졸업한 후에는 과학교사로 취직하는 동시에 대중잡지에 과학소설을 연재하기 시작한다. 웰즈의 과학소설들은 연재가 되자마자 인기를 끌었고, 1895년, 풍부한 과학 지식을 토대로 하여 최초로 시간 여행을 써낸 『타임머신』이 출간되자 폭발적인 인기를 얻어 일약 유명 작가가 되었다. 그 후 『모로 박사의 섬』, 『투명 인간』, 『우주 전쟁』, 『달 세계 최초의 사람』 등을 발표하여 SF 작가로서의 위치를 굳건히 했던 웰즈는 1946년 80세의 나이로 세상을 떠났다.

저자(글) Westerfeld, Scott

1963년 미국에서 태어났다. 2000년에 '필립 K. 딕 어워드' 특별상을 수상했으며, 독특한 설정을 바탕으로 매혹적인 서사와 힘 있는 액션이 가득한 이야기를 선보이는 미국의 대표적인 SF 작가이다. '어글리Uglies' 시리즈를 비롯해 '핍스Peeps', '그래서 어제는So Yesterday'이 ALA(전미도서관 연합)가 뽑은 최우수청소년 도서에 선정되었으며, 그 외 대표작으로 '미드나이터Midnighters', '부활한 제국The Risen Empire', '세계 학살The Killing of Worlds' 등이 있다. 현재 호주 출신 작가인 아내 저스틴 라발에스티어와 함께 호주 시드니와 뉴욕을 오가며 살고 있다.

저자(글) Wagar, W. Warren

W. WARREN WAGAR is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

목차

• Preface. .
  . Introduction. 1.
  . The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance (1897). 29.
  . (Annotated text of the first New York edition). 32.
  App. I. Review of The Invisible Man in The Spectator (1897). 205.
  App. II. Review of The Invisible Man by Arnold Bennett (1897). 207.
  App. III. Sergei Nechaev, "The Revolutionary Catechism" (1869), Section 1. 209.
  App. IV. T. H. Huxley, "Science and Culture" (1880), Excerpt. 212.
  App. V. Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, "The Sphinx" (1843). 218.
  . Bibliography. 227.
  . Index. 237

기본정보

ISBN	9780451531674 ( 0451531671 )
발행(출시)일자	2010년 10월 05일
쪽수	208쪽
크기	107 * 170 * 15 mm / 91 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어
시리즈명	Signet Classics

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