On a bitter evening in the depths of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives to the remote English village of Iping, his face swaddled in bandages.

The Invisible Man tells the tale of Griffin, a scientist who has found a way to make himself invisible.

To his anger and dismay, however, the experiment appears irreversible. Freed from the constraints of the law and rejected by a society that fears him, Griffin descends into brutality.

Wells' disturbing and insightful novel explores the question of morality when a man is free to do as he pleases without risk of being caught.

The Invisible Man, written in 1897, chronicles the antagonistic interaction between the citizens of a small town and a man who had discovered how to turn himself invisible.