The War of the Worlds

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H. G. Wells. The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds. by H. G. Wells

CONTENTS

BOOK ONE. THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS. I. THE EVE OF THE WAR

II. THE FALLING STAR

III. ON HORSELL COMMON

IV. THE CYLINDER OPENS

V. THE HEAT-RAY

VI. THE HEAT-RAY IN THE CHOBHAM ROAD

VII. HOW I REACHED HOME

VIII. FRIDAY NIGHT

IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS

X. IN THE STORM

XI. AT THE WINDOW

XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON

XIII. HOW I FELL IN WITH THE CURATE

XIV. IN LONDON

XV. WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN SURREY

XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON

XVII. THE “THUNDER CHILD”

BOOK TWO. THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS. I. UNDER FOOT

II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE

III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT

IV. THE DEATH OF THE CURATE

V. THE STILLNESS

VI. THE WORK OF FIFTEEN DAYS

VII. THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL

VIII. DEAD LONDON

IX. WRECKAGE

X. THE EPILOGUE

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‘But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited?

. . . Are we or they Lords of the World?

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By eight o’clock a number of boys and unemployed men had already started for the common to see the “dead men from Mars.” That was the form the story took. I heard of it first from my newspaper boy about a quarter to nine when I went out to get my Daily Chronicle. I was naturally startled, and lost no time in going out and across the Ottershaw bridge to the sand-pits.

The fear I felt was no rational fear, but a panic terror not only of the Martians, but of the dusk and stillness all about me. Such an extraordinary effect in unmanning me it had that I ran weeping silently as a child might do. Once I had turned, I did not dare to look back.

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