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Beyond Pyrford, a thread of green fire plunges into the field beside the dog cart

The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells

27 chapters · 262 illustrations · about 60,000 words

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Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Watched from Mars, unaware 8
  2. Chapter 2 The cylinder found on the common 11
  3. Chapter 3 The crowd at the Pit 8
  4. Chapter 4 The cylinder opens and the Martians appear 10
  5. Chapter 5 The Heat-Ray strikes the Deputation 11
  6. Chapter 6 The Heat-Ray and the Crowd's Flight 7
  7. Chapter 7 Flight home and a false calm 10
  8. Chapter 8 Friday night: the world goes on 10
  9. Chapter 9 The Day of Waiting and the Flight from Maybury Hill 10
  10. Chapter 10 Night drive into the storm 11
  11. Chapter 11 At the window: the artilleryman's tale 9
  12. Chapter 12 Weybridge and Shepperton destroyed 12
  13. Chapter 13 Meeting the curate on the Walton bank 10
  14. Chapter 14 London: from calm to panic 11
  15. Chapter 15 The Black Smoke Crushes the Artillery 9
  16. Chapter 16 The Flight North with the Elphinstones 11
  17. Chapter 17 The Thunder Child's sacrifice 9
  18. Chapter 18 Buried by the fifth cylinder 9
  19. Chapter 19 The Martians seen through the slit 8
  20. Chapter 20 Quarrel in the dark, Martians in the pit 9
  21. Chapter 21 The curate's madness and death 11
  22. Chapter 22 Starvation and the empty pit 9
  23. Chapter 23 Alone in the Red Weed Wasteland 10
  24. Chapter 24 The Artilleryman's Dream of Underground 11
  25. Chapter 25 Dead London: the Martians found dead 11
  26. Chapter 26 Wreckage and Homecoming 10
  27. Chapter 27 Epilogue: Doubt and Aftermath 7