The War of the Worlds
1898
H.G. Wells
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?
—K
EPLER
(quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)
Contents
Book One - The Coming of the Martians
Chapter One - The Eve of the War
Chapter Two - The Falling Star
Chapter Three - On Horsell Common
Chapter Four - The Cylinder Opens
Chapter Five - The Heat-Ray
Chapter Six - The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road
Chapter Seven - How I Reached Home
Chapter Eight - Friday Night
Chapter Nine - The Fighting Begins
Chapter Ten - In the Storm
Chapter Eleven - At the Window
Chapter Twelve - What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton
Chapter Thirteen - How I Fell in with the Curate
Chapter Fourteen - In London
Chapter Fifteen - What Had Happened in Surrey
Chapter Sixteen - The Exodus from London
Chapter Seventeen - The “
Thunder Child
”
Book 2 - The Earth Under the Martians
Chapter One - Under Foot
Chapter Two - What We Saw From the Ruined House
Chapter Three - The Days of Imprisonment
Chapter Four - The Death of the Curate
Chapter Five - The Stillness
Chapter Six - The Work of Fifteen Days
Chapter Seven - The Man on Putney Hill
Chapter Eight - Dead London
Chapter Nine - Wreckage
Chapter Ten - The Epilogue
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