The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells

But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be
inhabited? . . . Are we or they Lords of the
World? . . . And how are all things made for man?--
KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

Book 1 - The Coming of the Martians

* 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 - The Earth Under the Martians

* 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