The Invisible Man

H. G. Wells, 1897

H. G. Wells’s novel of a scientist who has made himself invisible and who arrives one winter day, wrapped in bandages, at an inn in the Sussex village of Iping.

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An invisible man is a man of power.
Chapter IXIn context
- Power
Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
Chapter XIn context
- Ideas
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
Chapter XVIIIn context
- Education
- Thinking

Chapter IThe Strange Man’s Arrival
Chapter IIMr. Teddy Henfrey’s First Impressions
Chapter IIIThe Thousand and One Bottles
Chapter IVMr. Cuss Interviews the Stranger
Chapter VThe Burglary at the Vicarage
Chapter VIThe Furniture That Went Mad
Chapter VIIThe Unveiling of the Stranger
Chapter VIIIIn Transit
Chapter IXMr. Thomas Marvel
Chapter XMr. Marvel’s Visit to Iping
Chapter XIIn the “Coach and Horses”
Chapter XIIThe Invisible Man Loses His Temper
Chapter XIIIMr. Marvel Discusses His Resignation
Chapter XIVAt Port Stowe
Chapter XVThe Man Who Was Running
Chapter XVIIn the “Jolly Cricketers”
Chapter XVIIDr. Kemp’s Visitor
Chapter XVIIIThe Invisible Man Sleeps
Chapter XIXCertain First Principles
Chapter XXAt the House in Great Portland Street
Chapter XXIIn Oxford Street
Chapter XXIIIn the Emporium
Chapter XXIIIIn Drury Lane
Chapter XXIVThe Plan That Failed
Chapter XXVThe Hunting of the Invisible Man
Chapter XXVIThe Wicksteed Murder
Chapter XXVIIThe Siege of Kemp’s House
Chapter XXVIIIThe Hunter Hunted
The Epilogue

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