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Table of Contents
 
From the Pages of
Title Page
Copyright Page
H. G. Wells
The World of H. G. Wells andTheWar of the Worlds
Introduction
Praise
 
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
 
Endnotes
Inspired by The War of the Worlds
Comments & Questions
For Further Reading
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The War of the Worlds 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. (page 9)
 “The chances against anything manlike on Mars are a million to one.” (page 14)
 Those who have never seen a living Martian can scarcely imagine the strange horror of its appearance. The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere, the evident heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth—above all, the extraordinary intensity of the immense eyes—were at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous. (page 27)
 “They’re coming!” (page 36)
 One or two adventurous souls, it was afterwards found, went into the darkness and crawled quite near the ............

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