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The War of the Worlds

Wells, H.G.
Martians invade England — the original alien invasion novel that terrified the world.

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THE EVE OF THE WAR. 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 and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various…

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