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The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells

The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells
235 episodes · full original text

Martians land outside London with heat-rays and towering tripods, and humanity finds out it is not at the top of the food chain. The original alien invasion story.

Every word as the author wrote it, split into 1-minute episodes.

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The Eve of the War

The Falling Star

On Horsell Common

The Cylinder Opens

The Heat-Ray

The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road

How I Reached Home

Friday Night

The Fighting Begins

In the Storm

At the Window

What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton

How I Fell in with the Curate

In London

What Had Happened in Surrey

The Exodus from London

The “thunder Child”

Under Foot

What We Saw from the Ruined House

The Days of Imprisonment

The Death of the Curate

The Stillness

The Work of Fifteen Days

The Man on Putney Hill

Dead London

Wreckage

The Epilogue