The Invisible Man, Herbert George Wells
The Invisible Man, Herbert George Wells
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The Invisible Man

Author: Herbert George Wells

Narrator: Sebastian Blackwood

Unabridged: 4 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/23/2024

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Griffin, a brilliant scientist, discovers the secret to invisibility but cannot reverse it. Shrouded in bandages and cloaked in secrecy, he seeks refuge in a small English village, where his initial hope for recovery spirals into madness. As Griffin's power grows, so does his disconnect from humanity, leading to a path of terror and desperation. Wells explores the dark side of ambition and the invisibility of the alienated soul.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on March 09, 2025

This is the story of how one angry, naked, sneezing albino managed to terrorize the English countryside. To be quite honest, I expected a bit more from the people who fended off the Nazis for years. But Wells seemed to think his fellow countrymen would be a bit too inept to toss a sheet over this sh......more

Goodreads review by Leonard on May 09, 2021

At some point in Plato’s Republic (see II, 359b-360d), Glaucon argues with Socrates that men practice justice only out of fear of punishment. Without that fear, they would commit theft, rape and murder. Case in point: Gyges, whose legendary ancestor, a poor shepherd, once found a magic ring inside a......more

Goodreads review by Lala on November 22, 2020

I read this for 2 reasons. It was short and therefore conducive to my 30 day reading challenge where I read 30 books (this was book 7) AND I was filming the process for a book vs. movie review (which I've now scrapped because the book was average and the movie was terrible and I don't care about eit......more

Goodreads review by Baba on December 30, 2023

SF Masterworks #47: - This modern classic with the science gone wrong theme is as much a horror book as a sci-fi one. Astoundingly it was written in 1897. Eighteen Ninety Seven!!! It hasn't aged well, for context it was published in the same year as … Dracula. The concept was a H.G. Wells' first; ori......more

Goodreads review by Delee on March 16, 2017

I have a feeling if I had read this on my own- my rating would have been 3 stars. So I would like to thank the following people for making this such an enjoyable buddy-read. You guys get a whole extra star all of your very own. No fighting when you split it among yourselves please.!!!! Jeff, Stepheny......more