The War of the Worlds
213 Pages
Summary
Famous Quotes
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 and yet as mortal as his own. - Narrator
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. - Narrator
It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants. - Narrator
We must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races. - Narrator
Chapters
Chapter 1 - THE EVE OF THE WAR. →
Chapter 2 - THE FALLING STAR. →
Chapter 3 - ON HORSELL COMMON. →
Chapter 4 - THE CYLINDER OPENS. →
Chapter 5 - THE HEAT-RAY. →
Chapter 6 - THE HEAT-RAY IN THE CHOBHAM ROAD. →
Chapter 7 - HOW I REACHED HOME. →
Chapter 8 - FRIDAY NIGHT. →
Chapter 9 - THE FIGHTING BEGINS. →
Chapter 10 - IN THE STORM. →
Chapter 11 - AT THE WINDOW. →
Chapter 12 - WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. →
Chapter 13 - HOW I FELL IN WITH THE CURATE. →
Chapter 14 - IN LONDON. →
Chapter 15 - WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN SURREY. →
Chapter 16 - THE EXODUS FROM LONDON. →
Chapter 17 - THE “THUNDER CHILD”. →
Chapter 18 - UNDER FOOT. →
Chapter 19 - WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE. →
Chapter 20 - THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT. →
Chapter 21 - THE DEATH OF THE CURATE. →
Chapter 22 - THE STILLNESS. →
Chapter 23 - THE WORK OF FIFTEEN DAYS. →
Chapter 24 - THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL. →
Chapter 25 - DEAD LONDON. →
Chapter 26 - WRECKAGE. →
Chapter 27 - THE EPILOGUE. →