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The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialized in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and of his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians. The novel is one of the most...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
A plain chapter-by-chapter Wells narration where Martian invasion becomes public panic, ruined streets, and patient speculative dread.
The War of the Worlds (Version 4) by H. G. Wells is a plain narrated Fiction entry built around chapter readings of Martian invasion. The sampled LibriVox episodes keep close to the text, moving from roads and crowds to stations, ruined rooms, Martian machinery, and the first…
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A hunger-soaked night on Putney Hill leads into one of Wells's coldest reckonings.
This chapter turns survival into crumbs, locked doors, and a hard look through the window, then opens out into a bleak question about what the Martians may be doing while London reels.
A ruined-city walk that turns silence, wreckage, and dread into one long, exact witness.
Dead London tracks a narrator through a city emptied of people but still crowded with damage: the red weed on the bridge, black dust in the streets, a man who can only curse and lunge, and hard, mouldy food in a baker's shop. The walk keeps widening.
London's collapse is rendered with exacting, catastrophic calm.
Chapter 16 tracks London's evacuation as the city loses its shape hour by hour. Stations jam, the Thames clogs, roads fill up, and the police and railway systems give way.
A measured march through Surrey that turns place names, silence, and black vapour into dread.
What Had Happened in Surrey turns the Martians' renewed offensive into a steady march across a real map, and that exactness is what makes the dread settle in.
A calm London, a stray rumor, and the moment disaster turns real.
London feels almost quiet while catastrophe edges closer, and that tension gives the chapter its bite. The appeal is in how rumor hardens into certainty: a short telegram, a morning class, newspaper boys calling out disaster, and then ordinary city noise begins to sound like a…
A patient terror chapter where hunger, waiting, and one rooftop sighting of the Martians do most of the damage.
This chapter of retreat makes terror feel domestic. The narrator and the curate are stranded in an empty house at Halliford for two weary days, with the narrator burning over his wife while the story keeps close to rooms, roads, hiding places, and the body's own hunger and…
A maritime flare of defiance burns through one of Wells' most crowded panic scenes.
Wells turns the flight through the home counties into a widening field of panic, where Barnet, Edgeware, Waltham Abbey, and the roads toward the coast all fold into the same pressure of escape.
A tight, unsettling chapter where dread comes through sound, ruin, and grim detail.
Chapter 2 turns the ruined house into a cramped watchpost. The narrator and curate crouch by a triangular opening while the Martians thud around outside, and Wells makes the fear feel physical: broken crockery underfoot, plaster sliding loose, a flash of gold on a tree top…
This chapter follows the narrator's brother as he escapes the Martian invasion of London, joining the massive exodus of terrified refugees fleeing northward.
The narrator and a curate hide in a ruined house after a Martian cylinder destroys the neighborhood.
The narrator, disoriented after a storm, looks out his study window to see Horsell Common transformed by a fiery red glare, with mysterious black shapes moving busily, hinting at the ongoing Martian invasion.
In this chapter, the unnamed protagonist and an artilleryman plan their escape from the Martian invasion, deciding to flee London for safety.
The narrator, a lone survivor, wanders through a silent, corpse-strewn London in the aftermath of the Martian invasion, haunted by a distant, perpetual howling.
The narrator returns to consciousness after the Martian invasion to discover London slowly recovering, with people returning to the city and infrastructure being repaired.
The narrator returns alone through a gathering storm to Maybury Hill after leaving his wife in Leatherhead, only to witness the terrifying appearance of Martian tripods—massive three-legged war machines that stride across the countryside destroying everything in their path.
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The narrator and a fearful curate continue their desperate flight from the Martian invasion, hiding from black smoke and fighting machines.
The narrator witnesses the Martians launching a new phase of their invasion in Surrey, using coordinated tactics and a terrifying new weapon—a heavy, lethal black smoke—to systematically crush human artillery defenses.
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In the aftermath of the Martian invasion, the narrator takes shelter at Putney Hill where he encounters an artilleryman.
The narrator describes a tense Saturday as the British military surrounds the Martian pit on Woking Common.
A first-person narrator escapes the Martian destruction of Weybridge by boat down the Thames, where he encounters a curate whose faith has been shattered by the attack.