Table of Contents
Welcome to the complete chapter guide for The War of the Worlds! This page provides a clickable table of contents, allowing you to easily navigate to detailed summaries of Book 1 and Book 2. Whether you’re analyzing the story or just looking for a refresher, this guide helps break down H.G. Wells’ classic invasion tale chapter by chapter. Click the book title to read all the chapter summaries for that book, or click on any chapter to jump straight to it!
Book 1: The Coming of the Martians
- Chapter 1: The Eve of the War
- Chapter 2: The Falling Star
- Chapter 3: On Horsell Common
- Chapter 4: The Cylinder Opens
- Chapter 5: The Heat-Ray
- Chapter 6: The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road
- Chapter 7: How I Reached Home
- Chapter 8: Friday Night
- Chapter 9: The Fighting Begins
- Chapter 10: In the Storm
- Chapter 11: At the Window
- Chapter 12: What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton
- Chapter 13: How I Fell in with the Curate
- Chapter 14: In London
- Chapter 15: What Had Happened in Surrey?
- Chapter 16: The Exodus from London
- Chapter 17: The “Thunder Child”
Book 2: The Earth Under the Martians
- Chapter 1: Under Foot
- Chapter 2: What We Saw from the Ruined House
- Chapter 3: The Days of Imprisonment
- Chapter 4: The Death of the Curate
- Chapter 5: The Stillness
- Chapter 6: The Work of Fifteen Days
- Chapter 7: The Man on Putney Hill
- Chapter 8: Dead London
- Chapter 9: Wreckage
- Chapter 10: The Epilogue
Navigation
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- Book 1: The Coming of the Martians | Book 2: The Earth Under the Martians
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