About the book
A cylinder falls from the sky onto Horsell Common, near London. Something unscrews its lid from inside, and the crowd that gathers to look is burned to ash by an invisible ray. Within days giant three-legged machines are wading across the Thames, and a man with no name tries to reach his wife through a country falling apart. H. G. Wells's 1898 novel is the first great story of an alien invasion.
The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
Choose a chapter
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Chapter 1: The Eve of the War
About 10 min
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Chapter 2: The Falling Star
About 5 min
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Chapter 3: On Horsell Common
About 5 min
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Chapter 4: The Cylinder Opens
About 5 min
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Chapter 5: The Heat-Ray
About 5 min
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Chapter 6: The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road
About 5 min
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Chapter 7: How I Reached Home
About 5 min
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Chapter 8: Friday Night
About 5 min
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Chapter 9: The Fighting Begins
About 10 min
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Chapter 10: In the Storm
About 10 min
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Chapter 11: At the Window
About 10 min
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Chapter 12: What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton
About 15 min
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Chapter 13: How I Fell in with the Curate
About 10 min
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Chapter 14: In London
About 15 min
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Chapter 15: What Had Happened in Surrey
About 10 min
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Chapter 16: The Exodus from London
About 20 min
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Chapter 17: The “Thunder Child”
About 15 min
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Chapter 18: Under Foot
About 10 min
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Chapter 19: What We Saw from the Ruined House
About 15 min
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Chapter 20: The Days of Imprisonment
About 10 min
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Chapter 21: The Death of the Curate
About 5 min
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Chapter 22: The Stillness
About 5 min
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Chapter 23: The Work of Fifteen Days
About 5 min
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Chapter 24: The Man on Putney Hill
About 25 min
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Chapter 25: Dead London
About 15 min
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Chapter 26: Wreckage
About 10 min
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Chapter 27: The Epilogue
About 5 min