The Invisible Man
- 170
- Pages
- about 3 h
- Reading time
- Film 2020 +8
- On screen
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Our view
“The Invisible Man” holds up remarkably well for a novel from 1897: it begins as a small-town mystery, fills in its backstory only later, and darkens steadily into horror as isolation strips Griffin of restraint. The prose is plainer and quicker than one might expect of a Victorian classic, and the book is short. A good choice for anyone wary of older fiction.
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About the book
The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialised in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man to whom the title refers is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and 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.
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen 9 times — from 1933 to 2020.
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Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.1 across 776 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 84% of the weight and the score stays at 7.2 — the Classics average of 7.7 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.6 | 108 | 14% |
| Hardcover | 7.0 | 668 | 86% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Invisible Man?
It has 170 pages — shorter than 96% of the ranked books in Classics.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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Same shelf — Classics — with scores between 7.3 and 7.8, closest to this book.
