The War of the Worlds - with the original illustrations (H. G. Wells) (Literary Thoughts Edition)

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H. G. Wells. The War of the Worlds - with the original illustrations (H. G. Wells) (Literary Thoughts Edition)

The War of the Worlds,

Literary Thoughts Edition presents. The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells

The War of the Worlds

CHAPTER ONE – THE EVE OF THE WAR

CHAPTER TWO – THE FALLING STAR

CHAPTER THREE – ON HORSELL COMMON

CHAPTER FOUR – THE CYLINDER OPENS

CHAPTER FIVE – THE HEAT-RAY

CHAPTER SIX – THE HEAT-RAY IN THE CHOBHAM ROAD

CHAPTER SEVEN – HOW I REACHED HOME

CHAPTER EIGHT – FRIDAY NIGHT

CHAPTER NINE – THE FIGHTING BEGINS

CHAPTER TEN – IN THE STORM

CHAPTER ELEVEN – AT THE WINDOW

CHAPTER TWELVE – WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON

CHAPTER THIRTEEN – HOW I FELL IN WITH THE CURATE

CHAPTER FOURTEEN – IN LONDON

CHAPTER FIFTEEN – WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN SURREY

CHAPTER SIXTEEN – THE EXODUS FROM LONDON

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN – THE "THUNDER CHILD"

The War of the Worlds

CHAPTER ONE – UNDER FOOT

CHAPTER TWO – WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE

CHAPTER THREE – THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT

CHAPTER FOUR – THE DEATH OF THE CURATE

CHAPTER FIVE – THE STILLNESS

CHAPTER SIX – THE WORK OF FIFTEEN DAYS

CHAPTER SEVEN – THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL

CHAPTER EIGHT – DEAD LONDON

CHAPTER NINE – WRECKAGE

CHAPTER TEN – THE EPILOGUE

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by H.G. Wells

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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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