The War of the Worlds (Legend Classics).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, H. G.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (139 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Legend Press, 2019.

Summary:

"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; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied.".

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

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

VI. The death of the curate

V. The stillness

VI. The work of fifteen days

VII. The man on putney hill

VIII. Dead london

XI. Wreckage

X. The epilogue.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781789550641

1789550645

OCLC:

1119644992