| War of the worlds | 
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| H.G. Wells' classic tale of interplanetary invasion. | |||
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| by H.G. Wells Text by H.G. Wells, 1898; copyright expired. | |||
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| inhabited? ... Are we or they Lords of the World? ... And how are all things made for man? -- Johannes Kepler (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy) | |||
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| War of the worlds:  Book one:  Chapter one The coming of the Martians; The eve of the war. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book one:  Chapter two The falling star. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book one:  Chapter three On Horsell Common. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book one:  Chapter four The cylinder opens. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book one:  Chapter five The heat-ray. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book one:  Chapter six The heat-ray in the Chobham Road. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book one:  Chapter seven How I reached home. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book one:  Chapter eight Friday night. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book one:  Chapter nine The fighting begins. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book one:  Chapter nine The fighting begins. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book one:  Chapter ten In the storm. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book one:  Chapter eleven At the window. | 
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| War of the world:  Book one:  Chapter twelve What I saw of the destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book one:  Chapter thirteen How I fell in with the curate. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book one:  Chapter fourteen In London. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book one:  Chapter fifteen What had happened in Surrey. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book one:  Chapter sixteen The exodus from London. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book one:  Chapter seventeen The "Thunder Child". | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book two:  Chapter one The Earth under the Martians; Under foot. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book two:  Chapter two What we saw from the ruined house. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book two:  Chapter three The days of imprisonment. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book two:  Chapter four The death of the curate. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book two:  Chapter five The stillness. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book two:  Chapter six The work of fifteen days. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book two:  Chapter seven The man on Putney Hill. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book two:  Chapter eight Dead London. | 
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| War of the worlds:  Book two:  Chapter nine Wreckage. | 
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