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The Invisible Man

H. G. Wells · 1897 · 48,641 words
2:15:08
at 410 wpm · the whole book
The audiobook runs about five hours.

Griffin takes a room at the inn in Iping, a Sussex village, swaddled in bandages and blue goggles, works behind drawn blinds, and turns violent when the village will not leave him alone. He is a poor demonstrator at a provincial college who dropped medicine for optics, robbed his father to pay for the work, and matched his own body to the refractive index of air. Wells is best on the nuisances of it: you go about naked and freezing, snow settles on you, mud takes your footprints, dogs still smell you, and your dinner shows until it digests. Fair warning that the opening third is broad village comedy, landlady and vicar and all, before it hardens into a manhunt.

29 chapters · begin at the beginning
IThe Strange Man's Arrival5:32begin ▸
·IIMr. Teddy Henfrey's First Impressions4:49sealed
·IIIThe Thousand and One Bottles4:57sealed
·IVMr. Cuss Interviews the Stranger6:04sealed
·VThe Burglary at the Vicarage2:03sealed
·VIThe Furniture That Went Mad3:43sealed
·VIIThe Unveiling of the Stranger7:56sealed
·VIIIIn Transit0:25sealed
·IXMr. Thomas Marvel5:24sealed
·XMr. Marvel's Visit to Iping2:40sealed
·XIIn the “Coach and Horses”3:02sealed
·XIIThe Invisible Man Loses His Temper4:39sealed
·XIIIMr. Marvel Discusses His Resignation2:03sealed
·XIVAt Port Stowe5:08sealed
·XVThe Man Who Was Running1:42sealed
·XVIIn the “Jolly Cricketers”3:37sealed
·XVIIDr. Kemp's Visitor7:13sealed
·XVIIIThe Invisible Man Sleeps3:35sealed
·XIXCertain First Principles5:04sealed
·XXAt the House in Great Portland Street9:30sealed
·XXIIn Oxford Street4:44sealed
·XXIIIn the Emporium5:53sealed
·XXIIIIn Drury Lane9:15sealed
·XXIVThe Plan That Failed3:54sealed
·XXVThe Hunting of the Invisible Man2:01sealed
·XXVIThe Wicksteed Murder4:08sealed
·XXVIIThe Siege of Kemp's House8:20sealed
·XXVIIIThe Hunter Hunted5:55sealed
·Epilogue1:48sealed

How long does it take to read The Invisible Man?

The Invisible Man is 48,641 words. At an average adult reading pace of 300 words a minute that is about 2 hr 42 min, or roughly 2 hr 2 min if you read quickly and 4 hr 3 min at a more deliberate 200 words a minute.

That count is measured from the complete public-domain text rather than estimated from a page count, so you can compare all the books side by side.

Text: The Invisible Man, H. G. Wells (1897), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. · You read at the book's authored pace; nothing here is stored anywhere but this browser. · About Midsentence