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The invisible man 目录 Plot summary author words Main character Herbert George Wells?(21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), known primarily as?H. G. Well?was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his?science fiction?novels, and is called the father of science fiction, along with?Jules Verne?and?Hugo Gernsback.?His most notable science fiction works include?The Time Machine?(1895),?The Island of Doctor Moreau?(1896),?The Invisible Man?(1897), and?The War of the Worlds?(1898). He was nominated for the?Nobel Prize in Literature?in four different years. A mysterious man,?Griffin, arrives at the local inn of the English village of?Iping, West Sussex, during a snowstorm. The stranger wears a long-sleeved, thick coat and gloves; his face is hidden entirely by bandages except for a fake pink nose; and he wears a wide-brimmed hat. He is excessively reclusive, irascible, and unfriendly. He demands to be left alone and spends most of his time in his rooms working with a set of chemicals and laboratory apparatus, only venturing out at night. While Griffin is staying at the inn, hundreds of strange glass bottles (that he calls his luggage) arrive. Many local townspeople believe this to be very strange. He becomes the talk of the village. Meanwhile, a mysterious burglary occurs in the village. Griffin has run out of money and is trying to find a way to pay for his board and lodging. When his landlady demands that he pay his bill and quit the premises, he reveals part of his invisibility to her in a fit of pique. An attempt to apprehend the stranger is frustrated when he undresses to take advantage of his invisibility, fights off his would-be captors, and flees to?the downs. There Griffin coerces a tramp, Thomas Marvel, into becoming his assistant. With Marvel, he returns to the village to recover three notebooks that contain records of his experi