The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds
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Герберт Уэллс. The War of the Worlds

Book One. The Coming of the Martians

Chapter 1. The Eve of the War

Chapter 2. The Falling Star

Chapter 3. On Horsell Common

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. What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton

Chapter 13. How I fell in with the Curate

Chapter 14. In London

Chapter 15. What had Happened in Surrey

Chapter 16. The Exodus from London

Chapter 17. The «Thunder Child»

Book Two. The Earth under the Martians

Chapter 1. Under Foot

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. The Work of Fifteen Days

Chapter 7. The Man on Putney Hill

Chapter 8. Dead London

Chapter 9. Wreckage

Chapter 10. The Epilogue

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No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.

The planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, revolves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if the nebular hypothesis has any truth, older than our world; and long before this earth ceased to be molten, life upon its surface must have begun its course. The fact that it is scarcely one seventh of the volume of the earth must have accelerated its cooling to the temperature at which life could begin. It has air and water and all that is necessary for the support of animated existence.

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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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