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The Invisible Man – A Cruel Romance ! Original Author: H. G. Wells Edited/Added and Translated By: M. Meenachi Sundaram TABLE OF CONTENTS The Invisible Man – A Cruel Romance ! 2 PREFACE.. 4 CHAPTER I: THE STRANGE MAN’S ARRIVAL.. 5 CHAPTER II: MR. TEDDY HENFREY’S FIRST IMPRESSIONS. 13 CHAPTER III: THE THOUSAND AND ONE BOTTLES. 21 CHAPTER IV: MR. CUSS INTERVIEWS THE STRANGER.. 29 CHAPTER V: THE BURGLARY AT THE VICARAGE.. 38 CHAPTER VI: THE FURNITURE THAT WENT MAD.. 41 CHAPTER VII: THE UNVEILING OF THE STRANGER.. 47 CHAPTER VIII: IN TRANSIT. 60 CHAPTER IX: MR. THOMAS MARVEL.. 61 CHAPTER X: MR. MARVEL’S VISIT TO IPING.. 70 CHAPTER XI: IN THE “COACH AND HORSES”. 74 CHAPTER XII: THE INVISIBLE MAN LOSES HIS TEMPER.. 79 CHAPTER XIII: MR. MARVEL DISCUSSES HIS RESIGNATION.. 87 CHAPTER XIV: AT PORT STOWE.. 91 CHAPTER XV: THE MAN WHO WAS RUNNING.. 100 CHAPTER XVI: IN THE “JOLLY CRICKETERS”. 103 CHAPTER XVII: DR. KEMP’S VISITOR.. 109 CHAPTER XVIII: THE INVISIBLE MAN SLEEPS. 121 CHAPTER XIX: CERTAIN FIRST PRINCIPLES. 127 CHAPTER XX: AT THE HOUSE IN GREAT PORTLAND STREET. 135 CHAPTER XXI: IN OXFORD STREET. 148 CHAPTER XXII: IN THE EMPORIUM... 155 CHAPTER XXIII: IN DRURY LANE.. 163 CHAPTER XXIV: THE PLAN THAT FAILED.. 176 CHAPTER XXV: THE HUNTING OF THE INVISIBLE MAN.. 182 CHAPTER XXVI: THE WICKSTEED MURDER.. 185 CHAPTER XXVII: THE SIEGE OF KEMP’S HOUSE.. 191 CHAPTER XXVIII: THE HUNTER HUNTED.. 204 THE EPILOGUE.. 213 ABOUT THE AUTHOR.. 216 PREFACE The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novel by British writer H. G. Wells. Originally serialised in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel now. The Invisible Man to whom the title refers is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and who invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light. He carries out this procedure on himself and renders himself invisible, but fails in his attempt to reverse it. A practitioner of random and irresponsible violence, Griffin has become an iconic character in horror fiction. While its predecessors, The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau, were written using first-person narrators, Wells adopts a third-person objective point of view in The Invisible Man. The novel is considered influential, and helped establish Wells as the "father of science fiction".