The Invisible Man
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First published in 1897, H. G. Wells’s The Invisible Man begins with the arrival of a mysterious stranger at an inn in the Sussex village of Iping, his face concealed by bandages and his behaviour increasingly alarming to the locals. The stranger is Griffin, a brilliant but reckless scientist who has discovered how to render himself invisible, only to find that his extraordinary achievement brings isolation rather than freedom. As his experiments give way to increasingly desperate acts, Wells turns a fantastic premise into a gripping story of ambition, paranoia and the dangers of power without restraint.
Blending scientific speculation with dark comedy and psychological suspense, the novel examines the uneasy relationship between knowledge and morality, as well as the social consequences of becoming detached from ordinary human life. Griffin is both a figure of scientific ingenuity and a disturbing portrait of unchecked individualism, whose invisibility exposes the fragility of the conventions that govern society. A key work in Wells’s early scientific romances, The Invisible Man remains a defining contribution to speculative fiction, unsettling in its suggestion that the greatest danger may lie not in what cannot be seen, but in what happens when accountability disappears.
From the book
“Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.”
— H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man
On The Invisible Man
“Wells was a master of the scientific romance.”
— Encyclopaedia Britannica