THE WAR OF THE WORLDS H. G. Wells
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS . H. G. Wells. " In another moment the huge wave, well-nigh at the boiling point had washed upon me. I screamed aloud, and scalded, half blinded, agonised [sic] , I staggered through the leaping, hissing water towards the shore. Had my foot stumbled, it would have been the end. I fell helplessly, in full sight of the Martians, upon the broad, bare gravelly spit that runs down to mark the angle of the Wey and Thames. I expected nothing but death." " Surely if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity -- pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion. " H. G. Wells' 1898 novel The War of the Worlds , besides bringing into being the whole genre of invasion from outer space and alien life forms, is a brilliant novel written in a style that is still quite vivid and accessible today despite its being a work of the 19th century. Wells' distinctive and descriptive prose brings to shuddery life a true horror and scien...