The war of the worlds
Wells
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Wells · 27 chapters
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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.
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;
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- BOOK ONE THE COMING OF THE MARTIANSSample
- 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.
- 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.