<Tr> <Th> Media type </Th> <Td> Print (hardback & paperback) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Pages </Th> <Td> 149 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H.G. Wells . 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 neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible . He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it . An enthusiast of random and irresponsible violence, Griffin has become an iconic character in horror fiction . </P> <P> While its predecessors, The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau, were written using first - person narrators, Wells adopts a third - person objective point of view in The Invisible Man . </P>

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