English · Intermediate
Read The Invisible Man in Englishwith every sentence explained
H. G. Wells · 1897
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About the book
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells was first published in 1897. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked intermediate and filed under horror and science fiction. It runs to about 48,200 words.
Bandages. Dark glasses. And nothing at all underneath.
On a snowy February day, a stranger walks into the Coach and Horses inn in the quiet English village of Iping. He is wrapped from head to toe: thick gloves, a wide hat, blue glasses, and a face completely covered in white bandages. He pays well, demands to be left alone, and fills his room with strange bottles and chemicals.
The villagers are curious, then suspicious. Why does he never eat in front of anyone? Why do things seem to move by themselves? And why is the strange guest so angry all the time? When the truth comes out, the whole village is thrown into panic, and a man with an incredible power begins to show what he is willing to do with it.
H. G. Wells's fast, darkly funny thriller is a science-fiction classic that has inspired films for almost a century.
- Author
- H. G. Wells
- First published
- 1897
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Horror, Science Fiction
- Length
- About 48,200 words
How it opens
The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried. He staggered into the “Coach and Horses” more dead than alive, and flung his portmanteau down. “A fire,”
Reading The Invisible Man in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday English feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
