The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds

Two Scientific Romances

H. G. Wells

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785486767821
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Wells's first two scientific romances. The Time Machine (1895) travels to the year 802,701 and finds humanity divided into the Eloi and the Morlocks; The War of the Worlds (1898) brings the Martians down on Woking, Surrey, and follows one man on foot across a beaten England. Both are short, both were written before he was thirty-two, and neither has been out of print since. Ninety-nine plates of stormy seas and volcanic light by Turner, Martin and their contemporaries run through both romances, matching the upheaval of the year 802,701 and the Martian descent.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• I. Introduction
• II. The Machine
• III. The Time Traveller Returns
• IV. Time Travelling
• V. In the Golden Age
• VI. The Sunset of Mankind
• VII. A Sudden Shock
• VIII. Explanation
• IX. The Morlocks
• X. When Night Came
• XI. The Palace of Green Porcelain
• XII. In the Darkness
• XIII. The Trap of the White Sphinx
• XIV. The Further Vision
• XV. The Time Traveller’s Return
• XVI. After the Story
• Epilogue
• I. The Eve of the War
• II. The Falling Star
• III. On Horsell Common
• IV. The Cylinder Opens
• V. The Heat-Ray
• VI. The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road
• VII. How I Reached Home
• VIII. Friday Night
• IX. The Fighting Begins
• X. In the Storm
• XI. At the Window
• XII. What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton
• XIII. How I Fell in with the Curate
• XIV. In London
• XV. What Had Happened in Surrey
• XVI. The Exodus from London
• XVII. The “Thunder Child”
• I. Under Foot
• II. What We Saw from the Ruined House
• III. The Days of Imprisonment
• IV. The Death of the Curate
• V. The Stillness
• VI. The Work of Fifteen Days
• VII. The Man on Putney Hill
• VIII. Dead London
• IX. Wreckage
• X. The Epilogue
• About the Author