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Герберт Уэллс. The War of the Worlds / Война миров. Уровень 2
Part I The Coming of the Martians
Chapter 1. The Eve of the War
Chapter 2 The Falling Star
Chapter 3. The Cylinder
Chapter 4. The Cylinder Opens
Chapter 5. The Heat-Ray
Chapter 6. The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road
Chapter 7. How I Reached Home
Chapter 8. Friday Night
Chapter 9. The Fighting Begins
Chapter 10. In the Storm
Chapter 11. At the Window
Chapter 12. The Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton
Chapter 13. The Curate
Chapter 14. In London
Chapter 15. What Happened in Surrey
Chapter 16. The Exodus from London
Chapter 17. The “Thunder Child”
Part II. The Earth under the Martians
Chapter 1 Under Foot [39]
Chapter 2. What We Saw from the Ruined House
Chapter 3. The Days of Imprisonment
Chapter 4. The Death of the Curate
Chapter 5. The Stillness
Chapter 6 Dead City
Chapter 7. The Epilogue
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No one believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that the intelligences greater than man’s were watching this world keenly and closely. As I scarcely need to remind the reader, the planet Mars revolves about the sun at a distance of 140,000,000 miles. The light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be older than our world. Life upon its surface began its course long before this earth ceased to be molten. The fact that it is scarcely one seventh of the volume of the earth accelerated its cooling[1] to the temperature at which life began. Mars has air and water and all that is necessary for the support of animated existence.
The exhaustion of solar warmth has become a problem for the inhabitants of Mars. And it has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts. They were looking across space with tools and intelligences such as we could scarcely dream of. They saw, at its nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them a morning star of hope. It was our own warm planet.
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A sudden chill came over me. There was a loud shriek from a woman behind. I saw horror on the faces of the people. The crowd moved backwards.
Tentacles were now projecting from the cylinder. The shopman was still on the edge of the pit. The people on the other side of the pit ran off. Stent was among them. I looked again at the cylinder in terror.
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