THE INVISIBLE MAN
By
H. G. WELLS
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About H. G. Wells:
Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called a "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
Wells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context. He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathising with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he wrote little science fiction, while he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of journalist. Novels like Kipps and The History of Mr Polly, which describe lower-middle-class life, led to the suggestion, when they were published, that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole. A diabetic, in 1934, Wells co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association (known today as Diabetes UK).
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 - The Strange Man's Arrival
Chapter 2 - Mr. Teddy Henfrey's First Impressions
Chapter 3 - The Thousand and One Bottles
Chapter 4 - Mr. Cuss Interviews the Stranger
Chapter 5 - The Burglary at the Vicarage
Chapter 6 - The Furniture That Went Mad
Chapter 7 - The Unveiling of the Stranger
Chapter 10 - Mr. Marvel's Visit To Iping
Chapter 11 - In the "Coach and Horses"
Chapter 12 - The Invisible Man Loses His Temper
Chapter 13 - Mr. Marvel Discusses His Resignation
Chapter 15 - The Man Who Was Running
Chapter 16 - In the "Jolly Cricketers"
Chapter 17 - Dr. Kemp's Visitor
Chapter 18 - The Invisible Man Sleeps
Chapter 19 - Certain First Principles
Chapter 20 - At the House in Great Portland Street
Chapter 24 - The Plan That Failed
Chapter 25 - The Hunting of The Invisible Man
Chapter 26 - The Wicksteed Murder
Chapter 27 - The Siege of Kemp's House
Chapter 28 - The Hunter Hunted
Chapter 1
The Strange Man's Arrival
The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried. He staggered into the "Coach and Horses" more dead than alive, and flung his portmanteau down. "A fire," he cried, "in the name of human charity! A room and a fire!" He stamped and shook the snow from off himself in the bar, and followed Mrs. Hall into her guest parlour to strike