The War of the Worlds

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title-offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of War of the Worlds includes a Introduction, Biographical Note, and Afterword by James Gunn. They came form outer space--Mars, to be exact. With deadly heat-rays and giant fighting machine they want to conquer Earth and keep humans as their slaves. Nothing seems to stop them as they spread terror and death across the planet. It is the start of the most important war in Earth's history. And Earth will never be the same.

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) wrote the science fiction classics The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The War of the Worlds, and has often been heralded as a father of modern science fiction.

The Coming of the Martians
The Eve of the War	p. 3
The Falling Star	p. 10
On Horsell Common	p. 15
The Cylinder Opens	p. 19
The Heat-Ray	p. 23
The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road	p. 28
How I Reached Home	p. 31
Friday Night	p. 36
The Fighting Begins	p. 40
In the Storm	p. 47
At the Window	p. 54
What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton	p. 61
How I Fell in with the Curate	p. 74
In London	p. 80
What Had Happened in Surrey	p. 93
The Exodus from London	p. 102
The "Thunder Child"	p. 116
The Earth Under the Martians
Under Foot	p. 129
What We Saw from the Ruined House	p. 137
The Days of Imprisonment	p. 148
The Death of the Curate	p. 154
The Stillness	p. 160
The Work of Fifteen Days	p. 164
The Man on Putney Hill	p. 168
Dead London	p. 185
Wreckage	p. 195
The Epilogue	p. 201
Afterword	p. 206
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The War of the Worlds

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