The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells | Full Read-Along Audiobook | Immersive Reading
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (1898), narrated by Cori Samuel. The complete, unabridged novel, with word-by-word synchronized text on screen.
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📖 About the book
Follow an unnamed narrator across Surrey and London as Martian cylinders crash on Horsell Common, the Heat-Ray sweeps the countryside, and three-legged fighting machines march on Victorian England — H. G. Wells's foundational tale of alien invasion — with every word highlighted in sync with the narration.
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.
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⏱ Chapters
0:00 Title
0:06 Chapter 1 — THE EVE OF THE WAR
16:05 Chapter 2 — THE FALLING STAR
25:04 Chapter 3 — ON HORSELL COMMON
31:44 Chapter 4 — THE CYLINDER OPENS
39:54 Chapter 5 — THE HEAT-RAY
50:33 Chapter 6 — THE HEAT-RAY IN THE CHOBHAM ROAD
56:16 Chapter 7 — HOW I REACHED HOME
1:05:27 Chapter 8 — FRIDAY NIGHT
1:11:56 Chapter 9 — THE FIGHTING BEGINS
1:25:01 Chapter 10 — IN THE STORM
1:39:39 Chapter 11 — AT THE WINDOW
1:53:00 Chapter 12 — WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON
2:18:33 Chapter 13 — HOW I FELL IN WITH THE CURATE
2:30:43 Chapter 14 — IN LONDON
2:55:44 Chapter 15 — WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN SURREY
3:14:39 Chapter 16 — THE EXODUS FROM LONDON
3:42:53 Chapter 17 — THE “THUNDER CHILD”
4:05:10 Chapter 18 — UNDER FOOT
4:22:08 Chapter 19 — WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE
4:45:11 Chapter 20 — THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT
4:58:27 Chapter 21 — THE DEATH OF THE CURATE
5:09:41 Chapter 22 — THE STILLNESS
5:16:17 Chapter 23 — THE WORK OF FIFTEEN DAYS
5:24:42 Chapter 24 — THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL
6:02:57 Chapter 25 — DEAD LONDON
6:25:48 Chapter 26 — WRECKAGE
6:38:49 Chapter 27 — THE EPILOGUE
6:48:07 End
🎙 Credits
Text: Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36) — public domain
Narration: Cori Samuel via LibriVox (https://librivox.org/the-war-of-the-w...) — public domain
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