'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...' The War of the Worlds is the literary predecessor to invasion stories like...
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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...' The War of the Worlds is the literary predecessor to invasion stories like 'Independence Day'. Set in fin de si裬e London, H.G. Wells? sci-fi classic tells the story of a Martian invasion of the earth. When Orson Welles presented it as a radio play in 1938 it led to widespread panic among listeners because of its seeming authenticity. A chilling, ominous tale which will resonate throughout the ages
Using Acrobat; Project Gutenberg Etexts; The War of the Worlds; 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 CurateCHAPTER FOURTEEN: In London; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: What had Happened in Surrey; CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Exodus From London; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The "Thunder Child"; BOOK TWO: 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;
