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The Invisible Man (1897) opens with a heavily bandaged stranger arriving at a Sussex inn in the dead of winter, and follows the slow unraveling of his secret and the fugitive career of Griffin — a brilliant young physicist who has rendered himself unseen and lost any moral footing in the process. One of the founding works of modern science fiction, written in Wells's plainspoken, sharply observed prose, it remains a study of power without accountability and the loneliness of a man no one can look in the eye.
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