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The invisible man 1897 is one of the most famous science fiction novels of all time. Originally serialized in pearsons weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and. Paperback published in 1995, kindle edition published in 2010, 0141184426 paperback published in 2001, 9780679601 pape.
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