The War of the Worlds

By: H. G. Wells

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Paperback | 1 July 2003 | Edition Number 1

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H.G. Wells's science fiction classic, the first novel to explore the possibilities of intelligent life from other planets, it still startling and vivid nearly after a century after its appearance, and a half-century after Orson Wells's infamous 1938 radio adaptation. The daring portrayal of aliens landing on English soil, with its themes of interplanetary imperialism, technological holocaust and chaos, is central to the career of H.G. Wells, who died at the dawn of the atomic age. The survival of mankind in the face of "vast and cool and unsympathetic" scientific powers spinning out of control was a crucial theme throughout his work. Visionary, shocking and chilling, The War Of The Worlds has lost none of its impact since its first publication in 1898.

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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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