The War of the Worlds

By Wells, Herbert George

Book Id: WPLBN0000630969
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The War of the Worlds
Author:	Wells, Herbert George
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago George Wells, B. H. (n.d.). The War of the Worlds. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

Description
Excerpt: THE planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, revolves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if the nebular hypothesis has any truth, older than our world; and long before this earth ceased to be molten, life upon its surface must have begun its course. The fact that it is scarcely one seventh of the volume of the earth must have accelerated its cooling to the temperature at which life could begin. It has air and water and all that is necessary for the support of animated existence.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: War and the Future, 1 -- H. G. Wells, 1 -- THE PASSING OF THE EFFIGY, 1 -- THE WAR IN ITALY, 11 -- I. THE ISONZO FRONT, 11 -- II. THE MOUNTAIN WAR, 14 -- III. BEHIND THE FRONT, 17 -- THE WESTERN WAR (SEPTEMBER, 1916), 22 -- I. RUINS, 22 -- II. THE GRADES OF WAR, 26 -- III. THE WAR LANDSCAPE, 31 -- IV. NEW ARMS FOR OLD ONES, 35 -- V. TANKS, 43 -- HOW PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THE WAR, 48 -- I. DO THEY REALLY THINK AT ALL?, 48 -- II. THE YIELDING PACIFIST AND THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR, 51 -- III. THE RELIGIOUS REVIVAL, 56 -- IV. THE RIDDLE OF THE BRITISH, 60 -- V. THE SOCIAL CHANGES IN PROGRESS, 65 -- VI. THE ENDING OF THE WAR, 72