Modern Library Classics

By: H. G. Wells

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Paperback | 12 March 2002 | Edition Number 1

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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." Thus begins one of the most terrifying and morally prescient science fiction novels ever penned. Beginning with a series of strange flashes in the distant night sky, the Martian attack initially causes little concern on Earth. Then the destruction erupts'ten massive aliens roam England and destroy with heat rays everything in their path. Very soon mankind finds itself on the brink of extinction. Wells raises questions of mortality, man's place in nature, and the evil lurking in the technological future-questions that remain urgently relevant in the twenty-first century.

'The creations of Mr. Wells . . . belong unreservedly to an age and degree of scientific knowledge far removed from the present, though I will not say entirely beyond the limits of the possible.' -Jules Verne

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"The creations of Mr. Wells . . . belong unreservedly to an age and degree of scientific knowledge far removed from the present, though I will not say entirely beyond the limits of the possible." --Jules Verne

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The Coming of the Martians
The Eve of the War	p. 3
The Falling Star	p. 10
On Horsell Common	p. 15
The Cylinder Opens	p. 19
The Heat-Ray	p. 23
The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road	p. 28
How I Reached Home	p. 31
Friday Night	p. 36
The Fighting Begins	p. 40
In the Storm	p. 47
At the Window	p. 54
What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton	p. 61
How I Fell in with the Curate	p. 74
In London	p. 80
What Had Happened in Surrey	p. 93
The Exodus from London	p. 102
The "Thunder Child"	p. 116
The Earth Under the Martians
Under Foot	p. 129
What We Saw from the Ruined House	p. 137
The Days of Imprisonment	p. 148
The Death of the Curate	p. 154
The Stillness	p. 160
The Work of Fifteen Days	p. 164
The Man on Putney Hill	p. 168
Dead London	p. 185
Wreckage	p. 195
The Epilogue	p. 201
Afterword	p. 206
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