by H. G. Wells
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Evening prayer.
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Women members of the Salvation Army, an international Christian charity founded in 1865.
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The Houses of Parliament, located on the Thames in the borough of Westminster, is the seat of Great Britain’s bicameral government; the Clock Tower, also known as Big Ben, is located at its northern end.
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Cannon whose inner barrel is wound with wire to provide greater stability.
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Special edition.
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Clothing.
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The Strand is a major thoroughfare; Trafalgar Square is a Westminster plaza named for Lord Nelson’s 1805 naval victory.
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That is, away from Trafalgar Square toward Westminster Abbey and Victoria Street.
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A traffic jam, as on a major race day at Epsom Downs.
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About 2 miles north of Westminster Abbey.
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Streetlights in London at the time the book first appeared were fueled by gas.
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Bell-ringing.
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The slope downward into Euston Station, in Camden, east of Regent’s Park.
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Suspenders.
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Located in Merton, a borough of Greater London, and known since 1877 for its tennis championship.
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All towns or villages on the way from Woking to London.
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A plant disease.
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All towns or villages in Surrey.
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Seized by Napoleon in 1812, Russia’s largest city was burned by its retreating residents.
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Cannon fired at one-minute intervals.
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Small hills.
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Thicket or grove of trees.
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Mountain-shaped cloud with a flat base.
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Carbon dioxide.
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The substance is subjected to light waves to see if it compares in any way with earthly matter.
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All areas west of London.
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On the outskirts of London.
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Billowings.
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Melting away.
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Cannon Street is a train station in the vicinity of London Bridge; Bishopsgate is a major thoroughfare running north to Liverpool Street Station, for trains to East Anglia and Essex.
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Barnes is a village west of London; Lambeth, part of Greater London, is the site of Waterloo Station.
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Borough of Greater London.
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In Camden, north of Regent’s Park.
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Village northeast of London.
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Hansom cabs are two-wheeled, covered carriages with an elevated driver’s seat at the rear; St. Albans is a district north of London.
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Chelmsford is due east of St. Albans; a stile is a step or steps that allow passage over a fence or wall.
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Town north of London; today a borough of outer London.
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Two-wheeled carriage.
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Following the rules of boxing.
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Stanmore, Pinner, and Edgware are small villages north of London, as is New Barnet, in the next paragraph.
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Port city, northeast of London.
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Poor section of London.
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Side road.
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Sister of the missing surgeon; her surname is that of Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), British military hero and administrator of British rule in India and Afghanistan.
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An imaginary name, though the office of chief justice is real.
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Counties closest to London.
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All exit routes from London.
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The part of the Thames near London Bridge.
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Bridge over the Thames in the City, the heart of London; it is west of the Tower Bridge and flanked by Waterloo Bridge and Southwark Bridge.
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Men who manage lighters, large flat-bottomed barges for loading and unloading ships.
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Limehouse is a neighborhood in London’s East End; Colchester, an Essex town northeast of London on the Colne River.
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London boroughs north of the Thames.
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The Midlands are central counties of England; Birmingham, a city in the West Midlands.
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Chipping Ongar is a town northeast of London; Primrose Hill, a green in the eastern section of Regent’s Park, London.
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Chelmsford, Epping, and Waltham Abbey are all towns northeast of London.
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Town very close to the sea, east of Chelmsford.
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Coastal headland south of Harwich.
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colliers are coal-transporting ships; “tramps” refers to tramp steamers, cargo ships with no regular route.
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Haggling.
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Blackwater River flows southeast through Essex into the North Sea; the town of Maldon lies on the south side of its estuary.
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Belgian North Sea port.
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Twenty.
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Remained.
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Foulness Island, north of the Thames’s estuary.
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River that enters the sea north of the Thames.
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The riverboat is making for Ostend, which is north and east of its current location. The narrator’s brother is standing on the port (left, or larboard) side of the boat, looking toward England.
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Parallel to perpendicular.
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Right side.
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Sailing ship used mainly in coastal waters.
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Force of its speed.
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Roman city buried in ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79.
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Locality southwest of London, site of a royal palace and Bushey Park. The towns listed here are on the way to London; Leatherhead is to the south.
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Fourteen days.
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Illustrations from a newspaper’s magazine section.
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Room for doing dishes and other messy kitchen work.
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Surface, skin.
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Eardrum.
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An imaginary character.
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Containing silica, which is the most abundant element on Earth, after oxygen, and is present in many plants and animals.
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Stern, unyielding; flint also contains silica.
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Invertebrate aquatic animal with a hollow, cylindrical body.
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Small marine animals.
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Like Humpty-Dumpty in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass (1871), the Martian’s body and head are all one.
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Another imaginary anatomist.
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Gliders, named for Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896), a German aviation pioneer.
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Annoying begging.
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Slag; stony matter fused by heat.
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Mythical giant with a hundred arms and fifty heads.
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Construction workers.
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The narrator is following the river Thames east toward London.
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Infected with sores that spread.
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Decorated with a pattern.
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Gorse and broom are flowering shrubs.
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Machete.
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Shelter made of tree branches tied together.
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Plural of the letter H.
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Men who make passes at women.
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Imitation of green turtle soup made of meat, wine, and spices.
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Regent Street runs south from Regent’s Park to Piccadilly Circus, a major London intersection.
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The Langham Hotel (1864) on Portland Place.
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Water.
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London is divided into church parishes.
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Luck of the cards.
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Chimney sweep.
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The ancient center of London.
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Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park form a large public green; south of the western end is the Natural History Museum. The parks share a large curved lake, whose Hyde Park portion is called the Serpentine.
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North of Hyde Park.
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Arch at the northeast corner of Hyde Park, where Oxford Street begins.
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Northeast of Marble Arch.
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District west of Regent’s Park.
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Primrose Hill is a green in the eastern section of Regent’s Park, London. The Zoo and Regent’s Canal are just north of Regent’s Park.
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King of Assyria (c.705-681 B.C.) who, according to the Bible (2 Chronicles), lay waste to much of Judea.
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Albert Hall, the Imperial Institute, and Brompton Road are all on the south side of Kensington Gardens.
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Immense iron and glass exhibition hall erected in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851; it was moved to Sydenham Hill (1852-1854) and destroyed by fire in 1936.
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St. Paul’s Cathedral, in the City.
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Wells refers to the post office located on this street in the City, where in 1896 Guglielmo Marconi demonstrated wireless communication—a fitting place for London to reestablish communication with the world.
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Cheshire city northwest of London.
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Wheat.
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Dumb or daffy rhyme.
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Typesetter.
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Three-dimensional effects.
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Kind of transparent crystal gypsum.
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Fictitious scientist.
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In the same degree of the zodiac.
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Imaginary scientist.
Table of Contents
The Time Machine The War of the Worlds
Enter the SF Gateway
The Time Machine
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
Epilogue
Endnotes - The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds
BOOK ONE THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS
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 13 In London
Chapter 15 What Had Happened in Surrey
Chapter 16 The Exodus from London
Chapter 17 The “Thunder Child”
BOOK TWO 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
Endnotes - The War of the Worlds
About the Author
The World of H. G. Wells
Inspired by The Time Machine
Inspired by The War of the Worlds
Bibliography