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The War of the Worlds · H. G. Wells

Book 1

Chapter 1 - The Eve of the War

Chapter 2 - The Falling Star

Chapter 3 - On Horsell Common

Chapter 4 - The Cylinder Opens

Chapter 5 - The Heat-Ray

Chapter 6 - The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road

Chapter 7 - How I Reached Home

Chapter 8 - Friday Night

Chapter 9 - The Fighting Begins

Chapter 10 - In the Storm

Chapter 11 - At the Window

Chapter 12 - What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton

Chapter 13 - How I Fell in with the Curate

Chapter 14 - In London

Chapter 15 - What Had Happened In Surrey

Chapter 16 - The Exodus From London

Chapter 17 - The "Thunder Child"

Book 2

Chapter 1 - Under Foot

Chapter 2 - What We Saw From the Ruined House

Chapter 3 - The Days of Imprisonment

Chapter 4 - The Death of the Curate

Chapter 5 - The Stillness

Chapter 6 - The Work of Fifteen Days

Chapter 7 - The Man on Putney Hill

Chapter 8 - Dead London

Chapter 9 - Wreckage

Chapter 10 - The Epilogue