The Invisible Man, G. K. Chesterton
The Invisible Man, G. K. Chesterton
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The Invisible Man

Author: G. K. Chesterton

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2015

Synopsis

G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) is best known for his fictional priest-detective, Father Brown. In 'The Invisible Man', Father Brown is able to solve the mystery of the jilted lover who is able to track his beloved, threaten and attack his rival and yet is never seen by anybody, even those who are specifically on the look-out for him.

Can it be that he really is invisible? And when he does manage to murder his rival, how does he make the body disappear too?

About G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography,Christian apologetics, fantasy, and detective fiction. Chesterton is well known for his reasoned apologetics, and even those who disagree with him have recognized the universal appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian and came to identify such a position with Catholicism more and more, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton's "friendly enemy" according to Time magazine, said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius."

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

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