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The War of the Worlds H. G. WELLS
HUM BOOKS
CONTENTS
Book One—The Coming of the Martians
Chapter I—The Eve of the War
Chapter II—The Falling Star
Chapter III—On Horsell Common
Chapter IV—The Cylinder Unscrews
Chapter V—The Heat Ray
Chapter VI—The Heat Ray in the Chobham Road
Chapter VII—How I Reached Home
Chapter VIII—Friday Night
Chapter IX—The Fighting Begins
Chapter X—In the Storm
Chapter XI—At the Window
Chapter XII—What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton
Chapter XIII—How I Fell in with the Curate
Chapter XIV—In London
Chapter XV—What Happened in Surrey
Chapter XVI—The Exodus from London
Chapter XVII—The “Thunder Child”
Book Two—Earth Under the Martians
Chapter I—Under Foot
Chapter II—What we Saw from the Ruined House
Chapter III—The Days of Imprisonment
Chapter IV—The Death of the Curate
Chapter V—The Stillness
Chapter VI—The Work of Fifteen Days
Chapter VII—The Man on Putney Hill
Chapter VIII—Dead London
Chapter IX—Wreckage
Chapter X—The Epilogue
But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited?
. . . Are we or they Lords of the World? . . . And
how are all things made for man?
—Kepler (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)
To my brother,
Frank Wells
this rendering of his idea.
Book One—The Coming of the Martians
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