Fiction · 1897
The Invisible Man
A Grotesque Romance
A stranger wrapped in bandages takes a room at an inn in a Sussex village in midwinter. He is Griffin, a physicist who has made himself invisible and cannot undo it; what follows is comedy, then terror, then a manhunt across the countryside.
H. G. Wells published the novel in 1897, two years after The Time Machine. Its subtitle, “A Grotesque Romance”, is exact: the book is both a scientific fable about power without accountability and a very funny account of an English village under siege.
The twenty-eight chapters and the Epilogue are given complete; the Epilogue, in which Griffin’s notebooks turn up in a public house and no one can read a word of them, is the coldest thing in the book.
Contents
- Chapter I — The Strange Man’s Arrival
- Chapter II — Mr. Teddy Henfrey’s First Impressions
- Chapter III — The Thousand and One Bottles
- Chapter IV — Mr. Cuss Interviews the Stranger
- Chapter V — The Burglary at the Vicarage
- Chapter VI — The Furniture That Went Mad
- Chapter VII — The Unveiling of the Stranger
- Chapter VIII — In Transit
- Chapter IX — Mr. Thomas Marvel
- Chapter X — Mr. Marvel’s Visit to Iping
- Chapter XI — In the “Coach and Horses”
- Chapter XII — The Invisible Man Loses His Temper
- Chapter XIII — Mr. Marvel Discusses His Resignation
- Chapter XIV — At Port Stowe
- Chapter XV — The Man Who Was Running
- Chapter XVI — In the “Jolly Cricketers”
- Chapter XVII — Dr. Kemp’s Visitor
- Chapter XVIII — The Invisible Man Sleeps
- Chapter XIX — Certain First Principles
- Chapter XX — At the House in Great Portland Street
- Chapter XXI — In Oxford Street
- Chapter XXII — In the Emporium
- Chapter XXIII — In Drury Lane
- Chapter XXIV — The Plan That Failed
- Chapter XXV — The Hunting of the Invisible Man
- Chapter XXVI — The Wicksteed Murder
- Chapter XXVII — The Siege of Kemp’s House
- Chapter XXVIII — The Hunter Hunted
- The Epilogue
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