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H. G. Wells

The War of the Worlds

An immersive reading of the complete novel.
Read along, word by word.

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The War of the Worlds (1898) follows an anonymous philosophical writer in Surrey as Martians arrive in cylinders, unleash Heat-Rays and Black Smoke, and march toward London on towering tripods. Often credited as the first modern alien-invasion novel, Wells's vision of imperial collapse and biological reckoning has shaped a century of science fiction.

  1. 1Chapter I0:06
  2. 2Chapter II16:05
  3. 3Chapter III25:04

This is an immersive reading edition: human narration synchronized with on-screen text, every word highlighted in time with the narrator’s voice.

Narrator
Cori Samuel
A LibriVox solo recording
Source Text
Project Gutenberg
First published 1898
Length
6h 48m · 27 chapters
Format
4K · Word-by-word synced text
Languages
German, English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Vietnamese, Chinese