H. G. Wells 3 hr 10 min read

A muffled stranger swathed in bandages takes rooms at a country inn, working feverishly among a thousand bottles, until his terrible secret is revealed: there is nothing beneath the wrappings.

H. G. Wells's 1897 novel is a foundational classic of science fiction. Gripping, tragic, superbly told. Read it for the father of modern SF's immortal tale of Griffin, the scientist who made himself invisible and was destroyed by his own power, a chilling study of genius, isolation, and madness.

In its time

Published in 1897, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

3 hr 10 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).