The War of the Worlds
By H.G. Wells

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Preface

     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)

Preface • 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 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 •

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