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"The War of the Worlds" details 12 days in which invaders from Mars attack the planet Earth, captured popular imagination with its fast-paced narrative and images of Martians and interplanetary travel. The humans in "The War of the Worlds" initially treat the invasion with complacency but soon are provoked into a defensive state of war.
H. G. Wells's science fiction masterpiece "The War of the Worlds" was originally published in Pierson's magazine in 1897 and was issued as a novel the following year. A century later, it has never been out of print. The story has become an integral part of our culture, frequently retold in graphic novels and films. In 1938, it became part of one of the greatest and most horrifying media events of all times. "The Mercury Theatre on the Air", headed by twenty-three-year-old Orson Welles, broadcast over the radio an adaptation of the book that was so realistic that it caused widespread public panic, mob violence, and looting. Until the night of that broadcast, few people realised the power of broadcast media to make whole populations feel powerless when faced with breaking events.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, Literary Classics, Dystopia
Length6 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 2, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Epigraph
3Book One. The Coming Of The Martians
4Chapter One. The Eve Of The War
5Chapter Two. The Falling Star
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6Chapter Three. On Horsell Common
7Chapter Four. The Cylinder Opens
8Chapter Five. The Heat-Ray
9Chapter Six. The Heat-Ray In The Chobham Road
10Chapter Seven. How I Reached Home
11Chapter Eight. Friday Night
12Chapter Nine. The Fighting Begins
13Chapter Ten. In The Storm
14Chapter Eleven. At The Window
15Chapter Twelve. What I Saw Of The Destruction Of Weybridge And Shepperton
16Chapter Thirteen. How I Fell In With The Curate
17Chapter Fourteen. In London
18Chapter Fifteen. What Had Happened In Surrey
19Chapter Sixteen. The Exodus From London
20Chapter Seventeen. The "Thunder Child"
21Book Two. The Earth Under The Martians
22Chapter One. Under Foot
23Chapter Two. What We Saw From The Ruined House
24Chapter Three. The Days Of Imprisonment
25Chapter Four. The Death Of The Curate
26Chapter Five. The Stillness
27Chapter Six. The Work Of Fifteen Days
28Chapter Seven. The Man On Putney Hill
29Chapter Eight. Dead London
30Chapter Nine. Wreckage
31Chapter Ten. The Epilogue
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