War of the Worlds (Version 3)

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Science Fiction

Authors: H. G. Wells In Year : 1898

Book Language: English

Audiobook: War of the Worlds (Version 3)

The Eve of the War
The Falling Star
On Horsell Common
The Cylinder Opens
The Heat-ray
The Heat-ray in the Chobham Road
How I Reached Home
Friday Night
The Fighting Begins
In the Storm
At the Window
What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton
How I Fell In with the Curate
In London
What Had Happened in Surrey
The Exodus from London
The 'Thunder Child'
Under Foot
What We Saw from the Ruined House
The Days of Imprisonment
The Death of the Curate
The Stillness
The Work of Fifteen Days
The Man on Putney Hill
Dead London
Wreckage
The Epilogue

No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that the Earth was being scrutinised and studied from across the gulf of space. With infinite complacency, humanity went about its little affairs, serene in its assurance of its empire over matter. It is possible that the micro-organisms we watch under a microscope, do the same. Few people gave thought to the idea of life on other planets, and none imagined that it could be so vastly superior in intellect to ourselves. No one considered the possibility of extra-terrestrial danger. Yet the eyes that regarded our planet were envious and unsympathetic, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. (Cori Samuel, adapted from Chapter One.)