Fiction · 1898
The War of the Worlds
Cylinders fall on the commons of Surrey; the things that crawl out of them bring heat-rays and black smoke; and within days the most powerful city on earth is being abandoned. H. G. Wells’s narrator walks through the ruin of southern England while his brother flees London.
Serialised in 1897 and published as a book in 1898, The War of the Worlds invented the alien-invasion story and has never been out of print. Its argument — that the imperial power of Wells’s own country might find itself on the receiving end of a superior one — is stated plainly in the first chapter.
This Bibliomancer edition presents the complete text in its two books.
Contents
- Epigraph
- Book One — The Coming of the Martians
- I — The Eve of the War
- II — The Falling Star
- III — On Horsell Common
- IV — The Cylinder Opens
- V — The Heat-Ray
- VI — The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road
- VII — How I Reached Home
- VIII — Friday Night
- IX — The Fighting Begins
- X — In the Storm
- XI — At the Window
- XII — What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton
- XIII — How I Fell in with the Curate
- XIV — In London
- XV — What Had Happened in Surrey
- XVI — The Exodus from London
- XVII — The “Thunder Child”
- Book Two — The Earth Under the Martians
- I — Under Foot
- II — What We Saw from the Ruined House
- III — The Days of Imprisonment
- IV — The Death of the Curate
- V — The Stillness
- VI — The Work of Fifteen Days
- VII — The Man on Putney Hill
- VIII — Dead London
- IX — Wreckage
- X — The Epilogue
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The text is free of copyright. This edition was prepared from an authoritative digitisation, processed by Bibliomancer and held to human review; every automated correction is recorded in its transformation log. Rights assessed for CA, GB, US.
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1866–1946 · Modern
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