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Read “The Invisible Man” by H. G. Wells in English. Tap any word for its meaning, hear how it sounds, and save it to a memory-driven review schedule.
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DICTIONARY
TRANSLATION
apreciar, atesorar
to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.
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The opening
How “The Invisible Man” begins
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.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “The Invisible Man” at level B2 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- invisible
- marvel
- stare
- mariner
- rush
- strike
- vanish
- fool
- visible
- extraordinary
- curious
- abruptly
- slam
- presently
- terror
- struggle
- smash
- bolt
- glance
- blow
- aside
- peer
- hesitate
- struggle
- passage
- grip
- heaven
- nerve
- swear
- landing
The meanings here are the everyday ones. In the reader, tap a word to see the sense this sentence uses.
Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “The Invisible Man”
How much of each kind of grammar “The Invisible Man” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Phrasal verbs
- Passive voice
- Perfect tenses
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Modal verbs
- Relative clauses
- Reported speech
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- try to do I tried to hush it by talking to it, and then I decided to turn it out.
- Phrasal verb with 'down' “Just to take me down a bit—that was his silly game—It’s on the paper!
- Past perfect active Not a word was spoken until the last echoes of the slam had died away.
Counted the way the Reader shows it: one card per construction in a sentence. Open the book in the Reader and tap a highlighted phrase to see the rule.
Library
What you get while you read
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Grammar in context
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About the book
Why The Invisible Man is a great book to read in English
On LangOrbit you read “The Invisible Man” with a safety net: the translation is one tap away when a sentence runs long, every word opens its meaning in context and can be saved for spaced-repetition review, and the grammar behind the trickier lines is explained right where you meet it.
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