Invisible Man

After the narrator gives a lecture at a women’s rights conference, a woman invites him home to discuss the Brotherhood. She turns out to have a husband who neglects her, choosing to sleep in a...

In chapter 9 of The Invisible Man, the old tramp Thomas Marvel is sitting with his feet in a ditch by the side of a road. He's trying on a pair of ugly old boots—charity boots, as he contemptuously...