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The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells1898

No one would have believed we were being watched. Then the first cylinder fell.

Portrait of The NarratorThe
Portrait of Annemarie WellsAnnemarie
Portrait of The ArtillerymanThe
Portrait of The CurateThe
Portrait of OgilvyOgilvy
Portrait of HendersonHenderson
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Cover of The War of the Worlds, comic edition
The War of the Worlds, illustrated page 1: No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly;
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The War of the Worlds, illustrated page 2: It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same.
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The War of the Worlds, illustrated page 3: I might not have heard of the eruption at all had I not met Ogilvy, the well‑known astronomer, at Ottershaw.
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The War of the Worlds, illustrated page 4: Ogilvy moved about, invisible but audible.
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The War of the Worlds, illustrated page 5: I never dreamed of it then as I watched; no one on earth dreamed of that unerring missile.
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The War of the Worlds, illustrated page 6: We, the earth's inhabitants, must appear to them as alien and lowly as monkeys are to us.
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The War of the Worlds, illustrated page 7: In 1894, a great light was seen on Mars' disk, first at Lick Observatory…
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The War of the Worlds, illustrated page 8: The missiles the Martians had fired at us drew earthward, rushing now at a pace of many miles a second.
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