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1. The Invisible Man
H.G WELLS
PROJECT BY – ADITYA SHARMA
CLASS – 10 B
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2. ABOUT AUTHOR
Herbert George Wells, better known as H. G. Wells,
was the third son of a shopkeeper. After two
years 'apprenticeship in a draper's shop, he
became a pupil- teacher at Midhurst Grammar
School and won a scholarship, to study under T.
H. Huxley at the Normal School of Science,
South Kensington. He taught biology before
becoming a professional writer and journalist.
Wells is most famous today for his science fiction
novels, of which the best known are: The Time
Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible
Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of
Dr. Moreau. He was a prolific writer, writing
more than hundred books of both fiction and non-
fiction, and works in many different genres,
including contemporary novels, essays, histories,
programmes for world regeneration, and social

3. ABOUT NOVEL
The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H.
G. Wells published in 1897. Originally serialized
in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a
novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the
title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted
himself to research into optics and invents a way
to change a body's refractive index to that of air
so that it absorbs and reflects no light and thus
becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this
procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to
reverse the procedure.

4. CHARACTER DESCRIPTION
• Griffin He is the main character in this story. He is
described to be an albino college student who majored
in physics and medicine. During his experiments he
• came across formulas that causes himself to turn
invisible. He ends up becoming the burglar in the story.
• Mr. Marvel This is the first man that Griffin attempts
• to make his accomplice. He is described to be short, fat
• and un liked by all. Also the area tramp. He betrays
Griffin.
• Dr Kemp Used to go to university with Griffin. He is
• interested in the bizarre aspects of science. Griffin
• comes Dr. Kemp in attempt to make him his
• accomplice, and even though Dr. Kemp acts as though
he is agreement with Griffin, he still betrays him.

5. .
• Teddy Henfrey Teddy Henfrey is a
clock repairman who
• Mrs. Hall
uses in attempt to find out more
• about
Griffin. But because Griffin doesn't
• speak
much, Teddy begins rumors about

6. COLONEL AYDE was the Chief of Police in
Burdock. He was a dutiful
officer who worked conscientiously
and according to the
demands of the situations. He responded
promptly and fearlessly to Dr.
Kemp's call to arrest the invisible
man. Adye also had the will to
take quick and wise decisions. He
knew that it would not be an
easy task to capture Griffin single-
handedly, so he decided to get
hounds that could sniff and locate
the Invisible Man. This
venture was indeed an act of bravery
because he knew very
well that Griffin was present in the

7. .
DR.CUSS was the medical practitioner at
Iping. He was a curious , jealous and a
educated man.
When he heard about the arrival of a
strange guest at
the inn who possessed more vials and
bottles than
him, he sought excuse to explore this
man. He tried to
probe Griffin to make him reveal his purpose.
However, when he was scared off by
the invisible Man,
he tried to think rationally regarding the
strange
phenomenon. He did not give up his
curiosity and
shared his quaint experience with Bunting.
J.A. JAFFERS was a constable or
"bobby” in the town of Iping. He is called
upon by
George Hall and Janny Hall to arrest

8. JANNY HALL is the wife of Mr. Hall and the owner of
the Coach and Horses Inn. A very friendly, down-to-
earth woman who enjoys socializing with her
guests, Mrs.
Hall is continually frustrated by the mysterious
Griffin's
refusal to talk with her, and his repeated temper
tantrums.
GEORGE HALL is the husband of Mrs. Hall and helps
her run the Coach and Horses Inn. He is the first
person
in Iping to suspect that the mysterious Griffin is
invisible:
when a dog bites him and tears his glove, Griffin
retreats to his room and Hall follows to see if he is

9. CHAPTER SUMMARY

10. CHAPTER 1
In the first chapter, when the novel begins, we find a stranger moving
towards Iping, a small hill side village of London, from Bramblehurst.
He is covered from top to bottom wearing long over coat, having pink
nose and blue goggles with side light. The author (H.G Wells) too,
calls him a wrapped up mystery in this chapter. When the stranger
reaches an inn owned by Mrs. Hall, he offers two golden sovereigns
in
exchange of a room and fireplace in it. Being an impeccable
business
woman, she makes the most of the situation and allots him a room
without any due verification. The stranger tells him that his luggage is
kept at Bramblehurst railway station and he wants it to be brought
upwards as soon as possible but Mrs. Hall makes an excuse of hefty
snowfall and assures him to get it brought in a couple of days. She
actually wants to make most of the situation and earn a good
fortune.
Besides, she responds with a good hospitality offering the stranger
good food to eat such as ham, bacon and some eggs. She observes
some strange and odd things in the stranger such as; he neither
takes
his serviette off while speaking nor his hat and coat off when she

11. CHAPTER 2
In the second chapter, a clock jobber namely Teddy
Henfrey comes to Coach and
Horses for a cup of coffee whence he is sent to stranger's
room by Mrs. Hall to keep
an eye on him and his odd habits along with repairing the
watch. He goes inside,
stares at the stranger and tries to talk to him making and
excuse of the weather but
the stranger orders him to mind his own business and
leave as soon as he is done
with his work. Teddy gets hurt and irritated with his words
and leaves Coach and
Horses even after Mrs. Hall tries her level best to stop him
& go to the root cause.
Having left Coach and Horses, he meets Mr. Hall whom he
incites and provokes
against the stranger stating that latter's wife has no sense
of business. Teddy also
talks ill of the stranger and his luggage that is supposed to
reach soon. Mr. Hall, in
order to show his supremacy, goes to Mrs. Hall to teach

12. CHAPTER 3
In the third chapter, in the month of February, Mr. Fearenside brings stranger's
luggage which contains more than thousand bottle of different shapes, three fat
books labelled as diary, dozen or more crates, boxes and cases packed in straw
etc. When the excited stranger comes to receive his luggage, he is attacked by
the dog of Mr. Fearenside. He rips his glove as well as the pants. Seeing this
misadventure, many people gather there and start cursing Fearenside for
keeping such a ferocious dog with him. Mrs. Hall, being a perfect business
woman, even demands compensation from Mr. Fearenside for this cruel act.
Meanwhile the stranger returns after changing his clothes and asks the carrier
to bring his luggage upwards. Having received his luggage, he pays off Mr.
Fearenside and starts opening his luggage one by one. While he is busy in his
experiments, Mrs. Hall comes and observes that stranger's eyes are as hollow
as sockets. She objects to the litter created by the stranger in his room but the
stranger advises her to add it to his bill. In this way, stranger gets rid of
talkative and disturbing owner of Coach and Horses. At the end of this chapter,
we find Mr. Fearenside & Teddy Henfey giving their own theories about the
stranger. Former thinks him as a piebald who has different nose and different
body colour whereas Teddy Henfrey calls him a criminal who is hiding here and
there in order to conceal his identity.

13. CHAPTER 4
In this chapter, we get to read that stranger has become
quite popular in this
small town of London. People have different opinions
about him as some
people think he is a detective whereas some consider him
as a magician
whose only purpose is to earn money. Some of the people
suspect him as a
criminal and some youngsters tease him as 'Bogey Man'.
Hearing a lot of
him, Dr.Cuss who is a local practitioner, gets jealous of him
and plans to
expose him in front of the whole town. With this intention,
he goes to Coach
and Horses and enters Stranger's room with an excuse of
subscription for
nurses. While talking to the stranger, he introduces himself
as a local doctor
who works for the welfare of the people. Besides, he starts
putting up
strange questions which infuriates the stranger ultimately.

14. CHAPTER 5
In this chapter, we get to know about the burglary
that
happened at Mr. Bunting's home at midnight. The
stranger, who has to make his payment to Mrs. Hall,
enters Mr. Bunting's home with an intension to steal.
He
breaks into his house and manages to steal a few
golden
coins kept in the drawer of Bunting's home. Mrs.
Bunting
who hears a strange noise coming from her home,
follows that noise but all in vain. The couple can see
that
somebody has lit a candle, somebody is opening the
drawer again and again but unfortunately no one is
visible. Ultimately, they conclude that the thievery
has
been committed by the invisible man who is putting
up at

15. CHAPTER 6
In this chapter, we get to know about the burglary
that
happened at Mr. Bunting's home at midnight. The
stranger, who has to make his payment to Mrs. Hall,
enters Mr. Bunting's home with an intension to steal.
He
breaks into his house and manages to steal a few
golden
coins kept in the drawer of Bunting's home. Mrs.
Bunting
who hears a strange noise coming from her home,
follows that noise but all in vain. The couple can see
that
somebody has lit a candle, somebody is opening the
drawer again and again but unfortunately no one is
visible. Ultimately, they conclude that the thievery
has
been committed by the invisible man who is putting
up at

16. CHAPTER 7
In the beginning of this chapter we get to read that Mrs. Hall has
stopped the food
supply of the stranger as he has not paid his bills for last five days.
Stranger, who is
extremely hungry who has been waiting for his food since
morning, has rung the bell
thrice but not responded by Mrs. Hall. Eventually, he comes out of
room, calls one of
the customers enjoying Whit Monday and asks him to call Mrs.
Hall. Mrs. Hall brings
a plate having a bill on it and asks stranger to pay it if he really
wants to have food
else she'll not give him anything to eat. Mrs. Hall. Besides, she
puts up some
questions, at the time of being given the money by the stranger,
from the stranger
which infuriate him completely. He starts taking his goggles,
bandages and gloves off
and becomes invisible. He runs to the kitchen and brings some
food from there. On
the other hand, Mr. Hall brings a local village constable namely Mr.
Bobby Jaffers
who show Griffin a warrant and request him to accompany to

17. CHAPTER 8
Griffin escapes from Coach and Horses in
search of someone who can help him out in
arranging food, clothes and basic facilities. On
the way, he runs across Mr. Gibbons who is an
amateur as well as naturalist. Griffin tries to get
closer to him, but soon Mr. Gibbons gets to hear
a strange noise of his sneezing and coughing.
Understanding the gravity of the situation &
seeing the danger around him, he runs from
there and rushes to his home.

18. CHAPTER 9
Having failed to talk to Mr. Gibbons, Griffin moves
towards Adder dean where he comes across a drunkard
namely Mr. Thomas Marvel who is confused between a
pair of shoes, which one to wear which one not to. Griffin
speaks from his back and advises him to put either pair.
Hearing the voice, Marvel turns up but fails to see
anyone there. Griffin tries his level best to convince
about his invisibility but Marvel forbids to do so. Finally,
Griffin picks up some flints and throws at the drunkard
man. One of the flints hits Marvel on his toe, thereafter
he gets ready to everything being said by Griffin. Marvel
requests him not to throw any more stone at him. He
gets ready to work for him when convinced by the
stranger.

19. CHAPTER 10
Having been convinced by Griffin, Marvel goes to Coach
and Horses to get back the luggage which includes
former's clothes, diary etc. He tries to sneak into
stranger's room but abrupt by Mr. Hall who tells him
about the privacy of the room. Marvel comes out of the
inn and wait for something to happen. Soon he receives
a big bundle kind of thing which he gets through the
window and runs down the hill. Mr. Huxter who had been
keeping an eye on him since his arrival, tries to get hold
of him, gets beaten by Griffin who also saves Marvel
from the hands of Iping's local folk.

20. CHAPTER 11 AND 12
In this chapter, readers get to know how the thievery at
Coach
and Hoses takes place. It is actually committed by Griffin
who
enters his hired room and finds Mr. Cuss and Mr. Bunting
sitting inside. He threatens them not to utter a single word
and
steals his diary, cheque book and other important things.
Griffin makes a bundle of it with the help of a table cloth
and
hands over the entire bundle to Mr. Thomas Marvel waiting
outside the inn in the backyard. Marvel runs with the
bundle.
In the pursuit of Thomas Marvel, People collide with Griffin
and one of the men hits him unknowingly. Griffin, who is
already short tempered, loses his cool and starts beating
the
people of Iping. He breaks a street light and scares the
people
of Iping as much as he can. He creates ruckus everywhere
and generates a fear in the minds of people of Iping once

21. CHAPTER 13 AND 14
Mr. Marvel and Griffin manage to escape from Iping with
latter's luggage. Marvel
gets too tired to carry such a weight on his shoulder.
Besides, he has to move
on with the money Griffin has robbed from the people of
Iping and other areas.
Having been so tired, he offers his resignation to Griffin
regretting his inability to
run and walk as his job requires. At first, Griffin accuses
him of giving him a slip
and later refuses to accept his resignation. In short, Griffin
makes it very clear to
him that Marvel can't resign until he succeeds in his
mission.
Griffin and Marvel keep on moving towards Bramblehurst.
On the way, Griffin
gives some relaxation to tired Marvel & asks him to eat
something at Port
Stowe. While Marvel is sitting on a bench outside an inn, a

22. CHAPTER 15 AND 16
In this chapter, we get to read about Dr. Kemp who is a
scientist and
preparing for Royal Society Fellowship Exam. He is one
who always
remains engaged in studying. When he gets bored or
whenever he gets
time to relax, he opens his window and looks out. On that
day, he gets to
see a short and fat man walking down the hill but he turns
a blind eye
considering him a fool. He has no idea that the man is
Thomas Marvel who
has cheated on Griffin and escaped.
Marvel who has cheated on Griffin, has escaped and
managed to enter an
inn called 'The Jolly Cricketers. On reaching there, he begs
an American,
who is drinking in that inn, and a policeman. He tells them
that he is being
chased by the invisible man who wants to kill him. The
American assures

23. CHAPTER 17 AND 18
Having escaped from there, Griffin manages to enter Dr.
Kemp's house. When
Dr. Kemp reaches downstairs, he finds some blood stains
on the ground. He
thinks it might be the maid who had cut her hand with
something, therefore he
moves on. When he reaches his room's door, he finds the
knob stained with
blood. Yet, he enters and finds his bed-sheet torn. Even,
he finds some
bandages flying in the air. Before he can understand
anything, he is startle by a
voice "Good Heavens Dr. Kemp". Then, he gets to know
about the invisible
man. Stranger tells him about his past that they both used
to study in the same
college. He further adds that his name is Griffin, he is an
albino, a 6 feet tall man
& he used to be topper of Chemistry in University College
London. Having heard
him whole-heartedly and believed everything about him,
Dr. Kemp yet refuses to

24. CHAPTER 19 AND 20
In this chapter, Griffin tells Dr. Kemp about his past that
how successfully he
had started his career. One day he meets Professor Oliver
in his college
who draws his attention towards Physics and invisibility.
The professor tells
him about pigments and seeks for his support in making the
formula of
invisibility. Griffin loses his interest in Chemistry and starts
working on the
tunes of the Professor. They both work together for a long
time but soon
have tussle with each other over credit-taking issue of
invisibility. Soon they
part each and other and Griffin decides to work single
handedly on the
formula of invisibility.
Griffin goes to the Great Portland Street and hires a room.
He continues his
research until he lacks in money. To arrange some money,
he breaks into

25. CHAPTER 21 AND 22
Now, Griffin goes to Oxford Street one of the most crowded
and engaged
place in England where he gets to know the flaws of being
invisible. He
realizes that for being invisible, he has to naked throughout
the day however
the weather is. Besides, he can't eat anything, he can see
people but people
can't and he can be perceived by the dogs by his smell. On
the very first day
of invisibility, he realizes that visibility is much better than
invisibility. He
continues telling his all the shortcomings to Dr. Kemp in the
form of a story.
Having left Oxford Street, in order to protect himself from
the falling snow
and biting cold, Griffin decides to hide himself in an inn
called 'Omniums'
where he manages to enter stealthily. He gets to eat a lot

26. CHAPTER 23 AND 24
Having gone from the emporium, Griffin reaches Drury
lane where he enters
a costume shop. The moment Griffin tries to move,
Hunchback, who is the
owner of that shop comes down as he is a keen observer
and can even
listen a needle's falling noise. He suspects somebody's
presence over
there. But soon, he is attacked by Griffin with a stool on his
head. He faints
over there and Griffin manages to get his clothes, pink
nose, blue goggles
with side light and many more things. Besides, he steals
Hunchback's
money and moves towards a small hillside village called
Iping.
Griffin is narrating his entire past to Dr. Kemp but latter
who is peeping out
of window, gets to see Colone Adye coming with some
policemen. Dr.Kemp
tries to corner Griffin but latter gets to see the policemen
coming. Griffin

27. CHAPTER 25 AND 26
When Griffin manages to escape from Dr.Kemps home, Dr.
Kemp
and Colonel Adye make plans to arrest Griffin. Dr.Kemps
suggests
Colonel Adye some ways to arrest Griffin. He advises the
chief of
the police to use Glass powder, dogs' help and to shut all
the food
shops, public transport, schools and colleges. Having
heard his
plans, Colonel Adye accedes to some of his requests and
makes all
arrangement to nab Griffin lest he should easily get away
from the
trap of him. They both seem desparate and feared as well
in this
chapter especially Dr. Kemp.
While they are in search of Griffin with the help of glass
powder and

28. CHAPTER 27
Earlier in this chapter, Dr. Kemp receives a death threatening
letter from Griffin. He, immediately, sends his maid to Colonel
Adye but in vain. Griffin, who was already there, reprimands
his
maid and comes to Dr. Kemp's house with an axe. He starts
breaking his windows with that axe. Soon comes, Colonel

29. brutally and continues breaking the windows of Dr. Kemp.
On the
other hand, maid is accompanied by two policemen who
warn
Griffin to surrender. But, rather than surrendering he,
attacks
those policemen. One of the policemen breaks his hand
which
makes him run away from there. Unfortunately, he runs
through
the same door whence Dr. Kemp runs where the former
chases
the latter with all his might.

30. CHAPTER 28
Now Griffin chases Dr. Kemp which makes him run to
each and every house and beg for his life. On the way,
Kemp reaches his close associate's home, Mr. Heelas,
who turns down his request to let him enter the former's
home. Dr. Kemp somehow reaches to some rural people
whom he requests to save his life from the king of terror.
Meanwhile Griffin comes and loses his hands on the
doctor brutally. Understanding the gravity of the situation
one of the masons hits Griffin with a shovel which forces
him to lose his grip from Dr. Kemp's neck. They all,
together, jumped over Griffin and kill by suffocating him.
In the end, the reign of terror ends and people take a
sigh of relief.

31. EPILOGUE
In the end, when Griffin dies, we get to read that Mr.
Thomas Marvel
has been released by local police in the absence of
witnesses for
his misdeeds. Therefore, his lawyers manage to get him
the money
that he had stolen with Griffin as his accomplice. With that
money,
he opens an inn in Port Stowe by the name of The Invisible
Man'
where he mints a lot of money alluring the visitors and
tourist with
the real stories of Griffin. He has grown rich all of a
sudden. In that
in, he has his secret chamber where he goes every night
when
everyone else has fallen asleep. He opens a secret drawer