How I Fell in with the Curate

The War of the Worlds (Version 4)

by H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946)

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 commented-on works in the science fiction canon. - Summary by Wikipedia

Listen next episodes of The War of the Worlds (Version 4):
Dead London , In London , The Days of Imprisonment , The Death of the Curate , The Epilogue , The Exodus from London , The Man on Putney Hill , The Stillness , The Thunder Child , The Work of Fifteen Days , Under Foot , What had Happened in Surrey , What We saw from the Ruined House , Wreckage