I was scrolling through the hive book club community when I stumbled on a book review of the book, Invisible man by H. G. Wells. It was talking about a man who invented the machine to make him invisible but later realized he couldn't turn himself back. It was hilarious. I immediately went hunting for the book and found the free e-book copy on Project Gutenberg. Forgive me, I deviated a bit. The book made me choose to read this particular short story with a similar title and it did not disappoint.
Considered the prince of paradox, G. K. Chesterton has written over 80 novels, 200+ short stories, a good number of poems, and over 4000 essays.
- Author - G. K. Chesterton
- Title - The Invisible Man
- Published --
- Genre - Crime, Fiction, Short Stories
PLOT
John Turnbull Angus stands in front of a confectionary, admiring the aesthetics. He then walks in and meets a fine woman to who he eventually proposes marriage. The woman begins to narrate her ordeal of the various suitors she has had and two of which are quite odd. She rejects their proposals on the grounds that they are not successful enough, whereas was based on the fact that they were ugly. Later, one of them returns, very successful, while the other lurks around like the invisible man while sending death truths to his rival. John Turnbull Angus meets the successful who he later follows to his mansion to offer help by calling a detective friend of his due to the threats he has received. Will he help him? Will the other suitor catch up with him?
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SETTING
The story was set in Camden, London.
CHARACTER(S)
John Turnbull Angus is one of the main character of the story. He proposes to Laura Hope who he find in a confectionary. She has a lot of suitors and tries to put them off by telling them that they need to be successful first. Isidore Smythe is one of Laura's suitors or is usually short. James Welkin is also a suitor of lauras. He is also the invisible man. Flambeau a detective who is a friend of John Turnbull Angus summoned to help Smythe. Father Brown who was with Flambeau and helped him solve the case in the end.
PURPOSE
The story tells us to be more observant. To try and look beyond what we expect to see.
This is a beautifully written story. Chesterton has shown that is a master of the crime fiction genre. It is believed that he was trying to replicate Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, with the character "Father Brown", but instead of putting the character at the center of the play, you only hear of him and his exploits at the closing stages of his story. Spoiler alert, it's a story about murder, but again the author does not delve straight into that from the beginning, but rather develops it till the end. Thrilling. I loved every bit of this. I was so engrossed in it that I didn't realize it ended. The ending is a bit confusing in my opinion. I will rate this story 4/5 and I totally recommend ittoo.
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In a way G. K. Chesterton reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe or H. P. Lovecraft himself, perhaps because he only wrote short stories and never novels, and perhaps for that reason he is not mentioned as the author of the best detective novels.
"The Innocence of Father Brown" is the most beautiful original collection of detective stories ever published. There are stories that are a classic of detective literature, such as "The Blue Cross"
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Cool, I didnt know Chesterton also had an Invisible Man story. I read "The Innocence of Father Brown" decades ago, you made me want to read it again. Thank you!
I did see the innocence of father brown.
I would go check that now haha,
Thanks for your comment