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The Narrator: character portrait from The war of the worlds (Wells, H. G. (Herbert George))

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The Narrator

The war of the worlds by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

An unnamed writer and philosopher living in Woking who becomes an eyewitness to the Martian invasion.

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An unnamed writer and philosopher living in Woking, the Narrator is an ordinary man whose life is disrupted when strange visitors arrive from Mars. Cautious and observant, he becomes an eyewitness to the growing invasion, trying to survive while recording what happens around him.

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