Iping

The action takes place in the village of Iping, in Sussex, where Griffin, a stranger, has holed up, hoping to find the antidote to the disastrous scientific experiment that made his body disappear.

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While these things were going on in the parlour, and while Mr. Huxter was watching Mr. Marvel smoking his pipe against the gate, not a dozen yards away were Mr. Hall and Teddy Henfrey discussing in a state of cloudy puzzlement the one Iping topic.

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So it was that on the twenty-ninth day of February, at the beginning of the thaw, this singular person fell out of infinity into Iping village.

The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006

“My reason for coming to Iping,” he proceeded, with

The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006

It was late in the afternoon, and they were in the little beer-shop of Iping Hanger.

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He could see nothing, but gave reason for supposing that he did, and others of the Iping youth presently joined him.

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It occurred in the small hours of Whit Monday, the day devoted in Iping to the Club festivities.

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Iping with a certain fulness of detail, in order that the curious impression he created may be understood by the reader.

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Certain minor facts were added to the Iping story, notably the cutting of the village telegraph-wire.

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And then the whole tumultuous rush has passed and the Iping street with its gauds and flags is deserted save for the still raging unseen, and littered with cocoanuts, overthrown canvas screens, and the scattered stock in trade of a sweetstuff stall.

The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006