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The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance
H. G. Wells · 1897
A brilliant chemist's experiment turns invisibility into both refuge and danger. When a mysterious guest unsettles a snowbound Sussex village, the people around him must reckon with the strange consequences of a life lived unseen.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 65 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
Principal Figures: Griffin, Mrs. Hall, Thomas Marvel, and Dr. Kemp
The Girl at the Gravel Pit, Colonel Adye, Bobby Jaffers, and Mr. Cuss
The Huxters, Mr. Gould, and Miss Statchell
The Stranger’s ArrivalA snowbound traveler carries a small black portmanteau into the Coach and Horses.
The Luggage CartCrates, books and bottles arrive at Iping in the thawing slush.
The Coach and Horses
Sussex and London in The Invisible Man
The Coach and HorsesThe Iping inn's bar, guest parlour and yard threshold, the village rooms most often described.
This edition
- Title
- The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance
- Author
- H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
- First published
- 1897
- Illustrated plates
- 143 original artworks · 65 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 29 · about 48,546 words
- Reading time
- 3 h 14 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- October 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
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