Preview — The War of the Worlds · Volume One

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Meet the Book

A Martian fighting-machine in a flooded street — plate by Henrique Alvim Corrêa, 1906

H. G. WELLS

H. G. Wells introduces his book His own voice for this preview — 40 seconds

Now hear the book itself open Chapter I — The Eve of the War · the book's own first 90 seconds

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's…”

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From the Middle — Chapter XVI: The Exodus from London

A Martian handling-machine in the pit — plate by Henrique Alvim Corrêa, 1906

H. G. WELLS

The Exodus from London From Chapter XVI, deep inside the book — 90 seconds of the full narration

The Martians are masters of Surrey, and London is emptying — millions on the roads, the trains crammed, the city fleeing before the fighting-machines. This passage sits well past the halfway mark of Volume One: the book only grows darker and grander from here.

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What’s Inside

The War of the Worlds — Holographic Talking Book · Volume One cover

Book One — “The Coming of the Martians” — complete: all 17 chapters, 36,338 words, the 1898 text exactly as Wells wrote it.
3 hours 38 minutes of narration — H. G. Wells himself stands in golden light in the corner of the stage and reads his own book aloud, page by page, in a reading room you can follow with your eyes.
The plates of Henrique Alvim Corrêa (1906) — the tripod in the flooded street, the handling-machine in the pit, the Thunder Child — the artist Wells said did more for his work with his brush than he did with his pen.
A low Martian drone beneath the voice, and the barcode on every stage frame — scan any moment to come back to this bookstore.
Book Two — “The Earth Under the Martians” — follows in Volume Two. Nothing in this volume is cut or shortened: Volume One is Book One, whole.

This is the original 1898 public-domain text by H. G. Wells, presented as a talking hologram book. The narration is a performed reading of that public-domain text, made for this edition. Editor: Franklin Langston. Not affiliated with the estate of H. G. Wells or with any film, radio, or television production — including the famous 1938 radio broadcast, which was a separate dramatization and is not part of this book.

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