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<div class="container" id="pg-machine-header"><p><strong>Title</strong>: The War of the Worlds</p>
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<p><strong>Author</strong>: H. G. Wells</p>
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<p><strong>Release date</strong>: October 1, 2004 [eBook #36]<br/>
                Most recently updated: November 27, 2021</p>

<p><strong>Language</strong>: English</p>


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<h1 id="pgepubid00000">The War of the Worlds</h1>
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   ‘But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited?<br/>
    . . . Are we or they Lords of the World? . . . And<br/>
    how are all things made for man?’<br/>
                    KEPLER (quoted in <i>The Anatomy of Melancholy</i>)<br/>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-1.htm.xhtml#book01" class="pginternal"><b>BOOK ONE.—THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS</b></a><br/>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-1.htm.xhtml#chap01" class="pginternal">I. THE EVE OF THE WAR.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-2.htm.xhtml#chap02" class="pginternal">II. THE FALLING STAR.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-3.htm.xhtml#chap03" class="pginternal">III. ON HORSELL COMMON.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-4.htm.xhtml#chap04" class="pginternal">IV. THE CYLINDER OPENS.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-5.htm.xhtml#chap05" class="pginternal">V. THE HEAT-RAY.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-6.htm.xhtml#chap06" class="pginternal">VI. THE HEAT-RAY IN THE CHOBHAM ROAD.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-7.htm.xhtml#chap07" class="pginternal">VII. HOW I REACHED HOME.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-8.htm.xhtml#chap08" class="pginternal">VIII. FRIDAY NIGHT.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-9.htm.xhtml#chap09" class="pginternal">IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-10.htm.xhtml#chap10" class="pginternal">X. IN THE STORM.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-11.htm.xhtml#chap11" class="pginternal">XI. AT THE WINDOW.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-12.htm.xhtml#chap12" class="pginternal">XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-13.htm.xhtml#chap13" class="pginternal">XIII. HOW I FELL IN WITH THE CURATE.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-14.htm.xhtml#chap14" class="pginternal">XIV. IN LONDON.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-15.htm.xhtml#chap15" class="pginternal">XV. WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN SURREY.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-16.htm.xhtml#chap16" class="pginternal">XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-17.htm.xhtml#chap17" class="pginternal">XVII. THE “THUNDER CHILD”.</a><br/>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-18.htm.xhtml#book02" class="pginternal"><b>BOOK TWO.—THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS</b></a><br/>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-18.htm.xhtml#chap18" class="pginternal">I. UNDER FOOT.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-19.htm.xhtml#chap19" class="pginternal">II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-20.htm.xhtml#chap20" class="pginternal">III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-21.htm.xhtml#chap21" class="pginternal">IV. THE DEATH OF THE CURATE.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-22.htm.xhtml#chap22" class="pginternal">V. THE STILLNESS.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-23.htm.xhtml#chap23" class="pginternal">VI. THE WORK OF FIFTEEN DAYS.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-24.htm.xhtml#chap24" class="pginternal">VII. THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-25.htm.xhtml#chap25" class="pginternal">VIII. DEAD LONDON.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-26.htm.xhtml#chap26" class="pginternal">IX. WRECKAGE.</a></td>
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<td> <a href="4439611432749106469_36-h-27.htm.xhtml#chap27" class="pginternal">X. THE EPILOGUE.</a></td>
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